Re: installing software from CD

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From: » mrtee « (hingelicker)
Date: 08/16/04 

Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 23:35:49 -0500

The first thing to do is contact the company that you purchased the computer from. It is new, there should be a warranty. 

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Just my 2¢ worth,
          Jeff
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"wd drive" <wd drive@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3B31B26D-0CEE-4E09-8462-F5F5992F10BA@microsoft.com...
|   I seem to have a very unusual problem installing programs with XP home 
| edition. I've never had such a problem installing software on any other 
| version of windows but now they have this great installation wizard.
|   The problem is that when I put a CD with a program, including the XP 
| windows Disk, it wont boot, the CD rom drive( D: ) will spin but then up 
| comes the message " failure to initialize properly(0xc0000006)."
|   If I try going through control panel-add new program I get a readmemory 
| writememory failure and that's it.
|   Going through help is no better.
| Going through troubleshooting only comes up with an error report window.
|   I can't even see whats on the disks.
| I can put in a music CD or a photo CD and can use them no problem.
| I have successfully downloaded the updates for windows XP and have had no 
| improvement in the situation.
|   This is a brand new computer and I have no virus's or trojan horses, 
| since I have not had time to accept any emails yet. The only thing I have 
| downloaded are the windows updates.
|   I have tried vaious disks from game disks to camera software to word, but 
| all fail to boot.
|   I'm either missing something obvious or something is wrong with the 
| setup.exe, I can't tell which.
| All I can say is if this was my computer it would be a Macintosh.
|   
|   
|

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