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re: xp installation error Tuesday, November 27, 2001 at 9:01 pm Posted by Darryl (35 messages posted) My guess would be a bad WIN XP CD. I would take it back to where you bought it and get them to "exchange" the software. They can't return software, but they should exchange for the same thing. On Tuesday, November 27, 2001 at 8:57 pm, kk wrote: >After copying the files and rebooting for the first time I get the following >error. >"An error has been encounterd that prevents the setup from continuing .One >of the components that windows need to continue setup could not be >installed.The parameter is incorrect. >Setup log.txt shows the following. >Installation failed >G:\1386\asms >The parameter is incorrect. > > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: xp installation error Friday, December 28, 2001 at 8:35 am Posted by Travis (1 messages posted) I think its suppose to be G:\I386 not G:\1386 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: xp installation error Tuesday, January 8, 2002 at 8:17 pm Posted by Thlayli (1 messages posted) I'm having the same problem, and I know my CD is fine. I've successfully installed XP on one machine, and it's on the second machine that I get the error. This leads me to think that it's a hardware incompatability thing. I'll post back here if I find anything out. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: xp installation error Monday, April 29, 2002 at 9:47 pm Posted by Invictuz (1 messages posted) I had the same issue...i could install on my Dell but when I tried to install XP on my generic AMD XP1900 it would error out saying it could not copy a particular file, 8 tries result in 8 different files unable to copy... Did you find a resolution? david On Tuesday, January 8, 2002 at 8:17 pm, Thlayli wrote: >I'm having the same problem, and I know my CD is fine. I've successfully installed >XP on one machine, and it's on the second machine that I get the error. This leads >me to think that it's a hardware incompatability thing. I'll post back here if I >find anything out. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: xp installation error Friday, May 17, 2002 at 5:47 pm Posted by Janice (1 messages posted) Copy \I386 directory to the harddrive, get a copy of Controls.man from a working CD-ROM (X:\I386\ASMS\6000\MSFT\WINDOWS\COMMON\CONTROLS)and place in the copied directory. Controls.man is a XML file responsible for registring the common controls in Windows (e.g. buttons, message boxes) You can also copy and paste the content of the file below: [Content of Controls.man] ToolbarWindow32 ComboBoxEx32 msctls_trackbar32 msctls_updown32 msctls_progress32 msctls_hotkey32 msctls_statusbar32 SysHeader32 SysListView32 SysTreeView32 SysTabControl32 SysIPAddress32 SysPager NativeFontCtl Button Static Listbox ScrollBar SysLink tooltips_class32 ButtonListBox SysAnimate32 SysMonthCal32 SysDateTimePick32 ReBarWindow32 Edit Combobox ComboLBox [End of content] Paste the data above into Notepad and save as CONTROLS.MAN. If there are html tags in your pasting, remove them. Hope this helps! On Monday, April 29, 2002 at 9:47 pm, Invictuz wrote: >I had the same issue...i could install on my Dell but when I tried to install XP >on my generic AMD XP1900 it would error out saying it could not copy a particular >file, 8 tries result in 8 different files unable to copy... > >Did you find a resolution? > >david > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: xp installation error Tuesday, September 3, 2002 at 6:39 pm Posted by Andy (1 messages posted) In response to this problem of the incorrect parameter, I have come across this a few times whilst trying to install xp prof, the way I get round it is to set the pc up as basic as possible. i.e. One hard drive (Master) and one CD Drive (as the slave) on the same IDE cable. I remove all the cards and only plug in a graphics card, a mouse, a keyboard and some memory. It has worked every time so far, although it seems that some of the more complex graphics cards have issues so it is safer to use the most basic you can find. Andy. On Tuesday, November 27, 2001 at 8:57 pm, kk wrote: >After copying the files and rebooting for the first time I get the following >error. >"An error has been encounterd that prevents the setup from continuing .One >of the components that windows need to continue setup could not be >installed.The parameter is incorrect. >Setup log.txt shows the following. >Installation failed >G:\1386\asms >The parameter is incorrect. > > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: xp installation error Sunday, September 15, 2002 at 6:27 am Posted by reena (1 messages posted) Did u manage to find a solution for this problem >"An error has been encounterd that prevents the setup from continuing .One >of the components that windows need to continue setup could not be >installed.The parameter is incorrect. >Setup log.txt shows the following. >Installation failed >G:\i386\asms >The parameter is incorrect. I am having the same problem when tryig to do a clean install on my laptop. Please help! On Tuesday, January 8, 2002 at 8:17 pm, Thlayli wrote: >I'm having the same problem, and I know my CD is fine. I've successfully installed >XP on one machine, and it's on the second machine that I get the error. This leads >me to think that it's a hardware incompatability thing. I'll post back here if I >find anything out. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: xp installation error Tuesday, September 24, 2002 at 5:08 pm Posted by Magagie (1 messages posted) I had this same problem. I isolated it to the CONTROLS.MAN file in the CD Drive:\I386\ASMS\6000\MSFT\WINDOWS\COMMON\CONTROLS directory. Every attempt to copy this file generated a failure to read drive error. This all was the result of a bad CD. When I used a new CD it installed without any problems. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: xp installation error Wednesday, March 17, 2004 at 5:35 am Posted by cansy (1 messages posted) Hi Krishnakumar I had the some problem error message error message d:\1386\asms the way I got around it was so easy, this was in a new computor just been pick up from a computer shop running a MSI 52 x32x52 burner only, Useing this burner xp would not install, So i throught try installed a old cd rom bang up and running xp installed so easy it must have something to do with the lazers. cansy good luck fellas On Tuesday, November 27, 2001 at 8:57 pm, krishnakumar wrote: >After copying the files and rebooting for the first time I get the following >error. >"An error has been encounterd that prevents the setup from continuing .One >of the components that windows need to continue setup could not be >installed.The parameter is incorrect. >Setup log.txt shows the following. >Installation failed >G:\1386\asms >The parameter is incorrect. > > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: xp installation error Tuesday, December 14, 2004 at 2:28 pm Posted by I can confirm (1 messages posted) I can confirm, I just had the same problem and it was caused by the media (the cdrom used). The media (CDR) had no scratch but wouldn't work. I used another media (older with little scratches) and everything went fine. Didn't try to scratch the cd to see if it would work then ;-) Definitly XP is bad with media when on install. On Tuesday, November 27, 2001 at 8:57 pm, krishnakumar wrote: >After copying the files and rebooting for the first time I get the following >error. >"An error has been encounterd that prevents the setup from continuing .One >of the components that windows need to continue setup could not be >installed.The parameter is incorrect. >Setup log.txt shows the following. >Installation failed >G:\1386\asms >The parameter is incorrect. > > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: xp installation error Wednesday, December 15, 2004 at 5:48 pm Posted by Mike (1 messages posted) I was installing this program on a number of computers. My first install went flawlessly. However, the next three all came up with this error! What was different? I had just bought and installed a new $15 cd rom drive in the first computer. I pulled it out and replaced the burner in each of the other computers and it picked right up and installed from the fail point. Pretty flipping weird. On Tuesday, November 27, 2001 at 8:57 pm, krishnakumar wrote: >After copying the files and rebooting for the first time I get the following >error. >"An error has been encounterd that prevents the setup from continuing .One >of the components that windows need to continue setup could not be >installed.The parameter is incorrect. >Setup log.txt shows the following. >Installation failed >G:\1386\asms >The parameter is incorrect. > > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: xp installation error Saturday, September 24, 2005 at 10:25 am Posted by abramo (1 messages posted) . hello, same problem here, but solved it by using the dvd-rom player instead of the cd burner, whereby the problem was initially encountered. Used the same cd-rom disc without any issue. So, try first this approach before freaking out. Hope this helps. abramo . On Wednesday, December 15, 2004 at 5:48 pm, Mike wrote: >I was installing this program on a number of computers. My first install went flawlessly. > However, the next three all came up with this error! >What was different? I had just bought and installed a new $15 cd rom drive in the >first computer. I pulled it out and replaced the burner in each of the other computers >and it picked right up and installed from the fail point. >Pretty flipping weird. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: xp installation error Friday, January 6, 2006 at 7:34 am Posted by MickeyG (1 messages posted) This worked for me too, Thanks for posting! On Saturday, September 24, 2005 at 10:25 am, abramo wrote: >. > >hello, > >same problem here, but solved it by using the dvd-rom player instead of the cd burner, >whereby the problem was initially encountered. > >Used the same cd-rom disc without any issue. > >So, try first this approach before freaking out. >Hope this helps. > >abramo > >. > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: xp installation error Sunday, July 29, 2007 at 8:51 am Posted by Will Beasley (1 messages posted) Apparently this is still a problem with XP Sp2. But the solution of avoiding the CD burner worked well. Thank you. On Friday, January 6, 2006 at 7:34 am, MickeyG wrote: >This worked for me too, Thanks for posting! > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: xp installation error Friday, July 3, 2009 at 10:06 am Posted by Efe (1 messages posted) Your solution has worked for me too abramo thank you! I was setting windows XP with sp3 to my old computer when I have encountered this problem. I changed my cdrom and it is resolved. On Saturday, September 24, 2005 at 10:25 am, abramo wrote: >. > >hello, > >same problem here, but solved it by using the dvd-rom player instead of the cd burner, >whereby the problem was initially encountered. > >Used the same cd-rom disc without any issue. > >So, try first this approach before freaking out. >Hope this helps. > >abramo > >. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: xp installation error Friday, July 3, 2009 at 10:00 pm Posted by OldManRiver (2 messages posted) All this sounds good till you realize the CD is read only so editing the controls.man file can not be done unless you copy the entire CD off somewhere, modify the file, then burn a new CD. Anyway in the middle of that process, so will see how it goes. OMR [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: xp installation error Friday, July 3, 2009 at 10:09 pm Posted by OldManRiver (2 messages posted) One more note: The instruction at MickeySoft's site: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311755 says cd C:\$win_nt$.~ls You need to open shell to command prompt @ c: and run "dir /w" as this directory name changes from install to install. Mine was C:\$win_nt$.~bt. If there is a way to edit in this directory and then continue the install, from the error this would be helpful, rather than all the trouble of copying and re-burning the CD after mod to the controls.man file. OMR [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: xp installation error Friday, March 19, 2010 at 6:31 am Posted by Bryan (1 messages posted) I'm having a similiar problem with starting up windows XP setup. I reformatted the computer, then it boots from the CD-Rom drive, but when I get to the install asms part, it won't read the drive when I click "Ok", even though the CD is in the drive. The screen just hangs at that part and won't do anything, no matter how many times I press OK. I only have one CD/DVD drive on my Dell Dimension 4700, and I'm unsure how to get around this. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum