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Old 05-23-2006   #1
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Hi, my brothers have a pc and it did keep restarting itself and kept coming up with an Norton Virus error and it would shut the pc down in 60seconds, couldnt do anything in this time.
Anyway i formated the harddrive and went for a clean install of windows xp and it couldnt copy the files from the xp disc to the hardrive, kept saying that the xp disc wasnt a correct image, well i know the disc is fine as it has no scratchs on it and is an original cd, also i used it to reinstall my system last week.
Well i cant reinstall xp now cause i cant get pass that bit anyone know how to or have come across this problem??? help please thanks.

(can the bios or motherboard get infected with a virus)

The hardrive is only 2 weeks old also.
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Hello there,

Welcome to the forums!

At the moment none of the techs are online but they normally dont take to long before replying. I'm sure someone will be around soon.

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Hi Englewood,

@PJ and Asa, thank you for welcoming our new member to the forum.

I would like to add my welcome to you as well. Before you try Asa's idea, I would like to track down the reason for the problem occuring in the first place.

You said that the harddrive is only two weeks old? Prior to your getting the Norton Virus warnings, how had the OS been installed? Was it an OES? (Installed by the computer manufacturer.)

When you reformatted the drive, did you completely uninstall all partitions, or just reformat?

I do not mean in any way to be offensive, but is the copy of XP that you have a legal copy?

Can you please post the specs on the computer for us, as well as information as to whether this is a two week old PC, or a new HDD that you are installing.

Looking forward to your reply,

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