Reformatting hard drive and it's stuck

SmilinDoug

SmilinDoug

So I'm sure my HD on my XP desktop got a virus. I've been trying to update AVG 2014 for a lot time and since AVG doesn't support XP anymore, I'm sure I got a virus. I couldn't open Firefox or anything.

So I started to reformat the hard drive using my original Windows XP Pro disk, and it was doing okay.....until.

The thingy (and that is the technical term for it), popped up and said " The file 'asms' on Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1 CD is needed. Type the path where the file is located, and then click OK".

So I looked that up on my other computer and found out that the CD might be a bad copy of just worn out over. So I put in my other original copy of XP Pro and it goes right to the same pop up.

So my question is, what do I do to get it unstuck?

I've tried to reformat again but it goes right to that pop up again. Did I screw up my hard drive?

Thank you for your support
 
It's an original oem cd. I've got two. I'm sure the cd drive was reading the cd up to a point, that's when I got the pop up. I'll follow the distructions in the link and see what that gets me.

Thank you! They don't pay enough here Elizabeth23.
 
Okay, I was going what the link told me to do. I went to find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Test\ControlSet1\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}. And I couldn't find it, it wasn't there. There was 497,96B,96F,972,973,974,975,97B, and 97E, but NO 965. So I looked in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM and 965 wasn't in there either.
 
Might be a bad motherboard. Every time I've seen bizarre errors during install making you think it was a bad CD or CD/DVD drive, it was a bad motherboard (I used to be a Systems Admin with about 300 computers to play with).
 
It's not the motherboard. I don't know what it is but it isn't the motherboard.

Here's what I did. I looked around my old parts and found an old hard drive. It's only an 8.4 gig HD, but it's good enough to do some testing. I swapped HD's and installed Windows XP Pro using the other OEM cd I have. It installed just fine.

So then I went into the registry edit like what the link above said, and looked for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\wada wada wada.

And I did find the line 4D36E965-, but I didn't see where it says UPPERFILTERS or LOWERFILTERS. So that part is different.

So I guess I'm missing a bunch of stuff on my 80gig HD (the one with the problem), and the 8.4 gig HD is just fine. But not large enough to do a damn thing with.

So maybe my HD is FUBAR. o_O
 
I found another hard drive, a 250 gig. I installed Windows XP sp1 and everything went fine. Then I upgraded that to sp3 and that went fine as well. I have MyPal 28.4.1 on a CD so I installed that in the desktop. I go to connect to the internet, and it says I have no connection.

Any suggestions?
 
Thank you but I think I've got it, sort of. I wanted to get the drivers from the motherboard company, so I went to their website and looked and looked and looked. I could see they had a bunch of drivers for my motherboard but there was no place to click to download them. I finally had to email them. They've this form I had to fill out so they know everything I need. So now I'm just waiting to hear from ECS. I did all this at about 3am. I still haven't slept.

The two Windows XP computers I have are in my signature.
 
I got all the drivers from ECS installed! It's working pretty good, kinda loud though. I've got Firefox 52.0, MyPal 28.4.1, and Webroot SecureAnywhere installed and running. Maybe this weekend I'll install some games, my scanner, and RC plane flight simulator.

I am very grateful for this forum. I wouldn't have known about installing FF52 or MyPal. I'm glad that many of you here are helping us to keep XP running on our computers. Other forums just say to upgrade to Windows 10. Well some of us don't like 10. :p
 
I think you posted in the wrong thread. LOL

My desktop has 3.4gigs of Ram. That's the one I was talking about.

And my laptop has more that 128 too, it's got 228mb.:D
 
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