And now the disk is being used in my big base unit and getting further than before.

Quote from: mr_roll

Quote from: CypherYour XP disc is knackered, thats why its asking for the location of files during installation.  BSOD is most likely caused by a dodgy installation.

Although youd think that most of the sites I found say it could be errors in the RAM or the Hard drive, but i will try and install windows with a disk I know that works, or atleast a different disk before I go changing the RAM or hard drive.

My opinion is simply from experiance, Im usually loading at least 1 XP machine every week or two.  Ive seen it happen before where it was asking for files, I swapped it for another disc and it was fine.  Imo its so important to get the installation right from scratch of any windows OS, especially server.

However, if you did reload it a second time and you were still getting bsod then yes it is the hardware, probably the ram.  Thats what happend with one Dell Precision that came in, end up sending it back.  Im knocking that possibility but I wouldnt be suprised if it was just a knackered disc.

How reassuring, mr_roll is fixing her laptop!  :shock: