re: GDIPLUS.MAN error on installation
Thursday, November 20, 2003 at 6:01 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jack
(1 messages posted)
Trying to upgrad Win ME to Win XP Home Ed. and got corrupt file (\$win_NT$.~\i386\asms\1000\
MSFT\Windows\gdiplus\gdiplus.cat) contains all zeros error message that stopped installatioin.
I also noticed the CD drive working hard at the end of file transfer step of installation.
I assume my problem is related to the problems sited in this thread. I have an old
CD drive that I replaced with a "good" Yamaha CD burner recently. Guess I can try
the old drive or go looking for the gdiplus.dll file. At least I may now have some
idea of what is going on. Thanks to all the posts on this thread.
On Monday, June 2, 2003 at 12:45 pm, Erik Tryggestad wrote:
>Loren: Wherever you are, thank you so much for posting this information about the
>GDIPLUS.MAN error. I have an HP Pavillion I bought back in 1999. Since I was experiencing
>trouble with my Windows 98 and had a bunch of junk on the hard drive I didn't want
>anymore, I told the XP Home upgrade to wipe the partition and reinstall the whole
>OS. I got this same error several times, and -- just as Loren described -- I was
>hearing a lot of weird noises from my CD drive. It just wasn't copying the file
correctly.
>Of course, my hard drive was wiped by the time the error occurred, so for a while
>I thought I was going to have to junk the whole system, since my factory backup
disks
>were lost about three moves ago. (I moved a lot when I lived in Savannah, Ga.) But
>... My computer also has an old DVD drive, so I tried to install the same program
>from the same disk using the DVD drive instead of the CD drive. I told the disk
to
>reformat the hard drive and install Windows XP. It worked like a charm. No problems
>whatsoever. The new OS has even corrected the problems I was having with Win 98.
>So, if you're having this problem, especially with an HP, try swapping CD drives
>or using a DVD drive if you have one. If you don't, I'm pretty sure you can borrow
>a drive from another machine and then swap it back after you install. In my new
XP
>environment, I've read information from the CD drive that was giving me problems
>on the install, and everything seems to work just fine. Of course, the main reason
>I did all this was so that my soon-to-be wife would have a semi-fast machine she
>could use for her med school classes. I got an Apple G4 laptop about two months
ago
>and use that instead. It's a much superior machine with a superior operating system
>that doesn't have the kinds of problems Microsoft is known for. --Erik Tryggestad,
>Oklahoma City
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