Ok this is the situation, please READ EVERYTHING. Thanks in advance. Anyways, I was once using Vista and was getting frustrated with my media sharing to my 360 from my pc, it just stopped working. So i thought "hey why dont i downgrade by to xp and do an update back to Vista again to see if that would solve my media sharing problem". So i popped in the original XP OS that i got from Dell and attempted to do a downgrade. Everything seems to be going ok then every now and then it saying it cannot copy certain files and gave me the option to skip it. So i was like sure why not even though it gave a warning about there might be problems if i were to skip them. Anyways, this is were I'm at. When my PC boots up it boots off the CD and this ies what happens in the order that it happens
1. Win XP comes up
2. Blue screen comes up then top left corner it says setup is being restarted.
3. Next screen has the steps that i've completed.
4. Window comes up titled:Fatal Error
5. After pressing OK
6. Window comes up titled:System Setup Log-(C:\WINDOWS\setuperr.log
I f anyone can help i would greatly appreciate it. Also i was thinking if i should just scrap the hard drive with that i tried to downgrade to and try to use my second drive that i had formatted before hand and try to do a clean upgrade to XP as if i were building this PC. By doing this i was thinking about downloading Windows XP from internet and putting it on a CD then doing the clean install from there and then do the Vista upgrade afterward to the second drive.
1. Win XP comes up
2. Blue screen comes up then top left corner it says setup is being restarted.
3. Next screen has the steps that i've completed.
- Completing Information
- Dynamic Update
- Preparing Installation
- Installing Windows
- Finalizing Installation
4. Window comes up titled:Fatal Error
- An Error has been encountered that prevents setup from continuing
- One of the components that windows needs to continue setup could not be installed
- Access Denied
- Press OK to view setup log file
5. After pressing OK
6. Window comes up titled:System Setup Log-(C:\WINDOWS\setuperr.log
- Error: Installation Failed: E:\I386\asms. Error Message: Access is denied.
- Fatal Error: One of the components that Windows needs to continue setups could not be installed. Access is denied.
- Error: Installation Failed: E:\I386\asms. Error Message: Access is denied.
- Fatal Error: One of the components that Windows needs to continue setups could not be installed. Access is denied.
- Fatal Error: One of the components that Windows needs to continue setups could not be installed. The operation was canceled by the user.
- Fatal Error: One of the components that Windows needs to continue setups could not be installed. The operation was canceled by the user.
- Error: Installation Failed: E:\I386\asms. Error Message: Access is denied.
- Fatal Error: One of the components that Windows needs to continue setups could not be installed. Access is denied.
- Error: Installation Failed: E:\I386\asms. Error Message: Access is denied.
- Fatal Error: One of the components that Windows needs to continue setups could not be installed. Access is denied.
- Error: Installation Failed: E:\I386\asms. Error Message: Access is denied.
- Fatal Error: One of the components that Windows needs to continue setups could not be installed. Access is denied.
- Fatal Error: One of the components that Windows needs to continue setups could not be installed. The operation was canceled by the user.
- Fatal Error: One of the components that Windows needs to continue setups could not be installed. The operation was canceled by the user.
- Fatal Error: One of the components that Windows needs to continue setups could not be installed. The operation was canceled by the user.
- Error: Installation Failed: E:\I386\asms. Error Message: Access is denied.
- Fatal Error: One of the components that Windows needs to continue setups could not be installed. Access is denied.
- Error: Installation Failed: E:\I386\asms. Error Message: Access is denied.
- Fatal Error: One of the components that Windows needs to continue setups could not be installed. Access is denied.
- Error: Installation Failed: E:\I386\asms. Error Message: Access is denied.
- Fatal Error: One of the components that Windows needs to continue setups could not be installed. Access is denied.
- Error: Installation Failed: E:\I386\asms. Error Message: Access is denied.
- Fatal Error: One of the components that Windows needs to continue setups could not be installed. Access is denied.
I f anyone can help i would greatly appreciate it. Also i was thinking if i should just scrap the hard drive with that i tried to downgrade to and try to use my second drive that i had formatted before hand and try to do a clean upgrade to XP as if i were building this PC. By doing this i was thinking about downloading Windows XP from internet and putting it on a CD then doing the clean install from there and then do the Vista upgrade afterward to the second drive.