Windows XP Setup Repeatedly Crashes - How to Solve this Issue

While Installing Windows XP , setup runs through several steps of installation. But if it finds hard drive in corrupted state, it prompts errors and won’t allow the installation to continue further. If hard drive is damaged, you might need to either reformat it or replace it. In such situations, it is required that you have an updated copy of significant data. However, if no backup is available or it exists in invalid state, you should use hard drive recovery software to recover it.

While trying to install or upgrade to Windows XP, you might observe following symptoms with its setup:

1. One can encounter the similar error message while setup:

“Setup is unable to perform the requested operation on the selected partition. This partition contains temporary Setup files that are required to complete the installation.”

2. You try to format the hard drive but it returns an error that the setup has performed some maintenance task on your hard drive and hence cannot continue

3. Your computer system freezes with CRC errors on screen.

Cause

Your hard drive is suffering from major physical or logical corruption issues. Windows XP setup shows aforementioned symptoms when it attempts to repair these errors.

Solution

You need to apply these methods in order to solve the existing issue:

1. You can continue running the Setup program and allow it to repair the hard drive itself. You can try out running it several times.

2. If Setup cannot fix hard drive corruption, you should use Recovery Console to run chkdsk /r command logical disk corruptions, if any. Reformat the hard drive if it could detect but cannot repair the hard drive and restore lost data from backup. Use hard drive recovery applications if you fail to restore from backup.

3. If chkdsk cannot detect the hard drive, the hard drive is physically damaged. Replace the hard drive and restore lost data using backup. Contact hard drive recovery service professional for assistance in case of backup concerns to extract the data from physically crashed drive.