In the sif file used by setup is corrupted

I decided to repartition to ntfs the hard drive after learning that my brother's friend allowed it to be a fat16 partition on a 40gb hd, thus only allowing 2gb to be used.

The hard drive is now repartitioned, all my computer needs is an OS. I have a copy of win xp. I can't install it onto my computer. I have resorted to using the 6 boot up floppies downloaded from Microfsoft just to get the CD going, but in the middle of setup. However, I get the problem "The following value in the. What else can I do? Join our community to see this answer! Unlock 1 Answer and 6 Comments. Andrew Hancock - VMware vExpert. Our community of experts have been thoroughly vetted for their expertise and industry experience.

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All rights reserved. Covered by US Patent. Come for the solution, stay for everything else. Welcome to our community! Just installed a new drive and cranked up the Dell using the 6 floppy set up disks. After I install the 6 disk,and after format I get this err:. I followed the instructions page for page, letter for letter.

Weird, huh? Funny that you said suggested that. All of my installations are corrupted or damaged. I want to do them all over from scratch. I want this one computer right before I try to fix the other two. They are all usable, just not right. The only boot partition that does not have corruption or damaged installation files is my "Games" boot partition, which is great if I wanted to play games Unreal Tourn, Doom, Quake all day but I have work to do.

I have repeated Disk Errors on all of my system partitions on all of my PC's. I can do a low level HD format, a clean install and by the time I get a few courses of updates form Microsoft or a few programs installed, I have stuff going haywire. I Defrag like mad. I disconnect from the internet before installing most programs. I don't know what I am doing wrong. I am not a expert, I'd love to learn a lot more, but I thought I knew what I was doing.

I have deleted and re-installed my "Projects" boot partition a number of times to do this integration and they have all failed with the same error. I don't know if you realize this, but if chkdsk reports bad sectors you should return the hard drive if it's still under warranty. You should always do that immediately after buying it. Thanks again.

I don't think it is my hard drive. As I said, I seem to have the same problem on several different computers, mostly noticeable when I am installing software. I have run several hard drive tests SeaTools, etc. I have run MemTest86 on my Memory. I finally built the computer I wanted!! Checkdisk says there were errors but it does not say there are bad sectors. I think it involved security descriptors. I'll try to make note the next time. I'm not sure if the first is problematic but the second most surely is.

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