I was try to install a new OS in my system. in the middle of it. it told me that

 Error: installation failed: E:\i386\asms. error message: the parameter is incorrect. 

So, how do I fits this problem?

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re: e:\i386\asms Friday, November 22, 2002 at 8:41 pm Posted by William (38 messages posted) I386 is a folder on the XP setup disk. Asms is a folder in that folder. Is E the destination drive. Or the sorce drive. Try cleaning the disk. On Friday, November 22, 2002 at 8:20 pm, Kitt wrote: >I was try to install a new OS in my system. in the middle of it. it told me that > > Error: installation failed: E:\i386\asms. error message: the parameter is incorrect. > >So, how do I fits this problem? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Friday, November 22, 2002 at 10:07 pm Posted by Kitt (6 messages posted) Well, the E: is the drive where I put the CD in. and C: is my main hard drive. On Friday, November 22, 2002 at 8:41 pm, William wrote: >I386 is a folder on the XP setup disk. Asms is a folder in that folder. Is E the >destination drive. Or the sorce drive. Try cleaning the disk. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Friday, November 22, 2002 at 10:25 pm Posted by William (38 messages posted) all i can say is clean the disk sorry On Friday, November 22, 2002 at 10:07 pm, Kitt wrote: >Well, the E: is the drive where I put the CD in. and C: is my main hard drive. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Friday, November 22, 2002 at 11:46 pm Posted by Kitt (6 messages posted) I had clean the disk and try to install it again. it is still saying the same thing. Is there a file I need to copy or downlaod from somewhere to my hard drive to get this WinXP Pro's Edition to work? Can someone help me out. thanks On Friday, November 22, 2002 at 10:25 pm, William wrote: >all i can say is clean the disk >sorry > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Saturday, November 23, 2002 at 5:08 am Posted by Bob Cerelli (2137 messages posted) Can you copy the CD to a directory on the hard drive first. This would help determine if the CD is really defective. If there is a problem, you should not be able to copy the files. Also, if this is a new purchase, you might ask for an exchange. Bob Cerelli http://www.onecomputerguy.com On Friday, November 22, 2002 at 8:20 pm, Kitt wrote: >I was try to install a new OS in my system. in the middle of it. it told me that > > Error: installation failed: E:\i386\asms. error message: the parameter is incorrect. > >So, how do I fits this problem? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Saturday, November 23, 2002 at 10:09 am Posted by Kitt (6 messages posted) I try to copy the program to my local hard drive. it told me that it could not conpy the controls file. it can not find the file or it has been move. On Saturday, November 23, 2002 at 5:08 am, Bob Cerelli wrote: >Can you copy the CD to a directory on the hard drive first. This would help determine >if the CD is really defective. If there is a problem, you should not be able to copy >the files. Also, if this is a new purchase, you might ask for an exchange. > >Bob Cerelli >http://www.onecomputerguy.com > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Saturday, November 23, 2002 at 10:17 am Posted by Bob Cerelli (2137 messages posted) You are not copying a program but entire directories. What steps are you using to copy the i386 to your computer and where are you copying it. Bob On Saturday, November 23, 2002 at 10:09 am, Kitt wrote: >I try to copy the program to my local hard drive. it told me that > >it could not conpy the controls file. it can not find the file or it has been move. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Saturday, November 23, 2002 at 10:20 am Posted by Kitt (6 messages posted) What entire directories? I create a new folder in the program file. I use the copy command. On Saturday, November 23, 2002 at 10:17 am, Bob Cerelli wrote: >You are not copying a program but entire directories. What steps are you using to >copy the i386 to your computer and where are you copying it. > >Bob > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Saturday, November 23, 2002 at 10:27 am Posted by Bob Cerelli (2137 messages posted) In your original post, you mentioned that you were having difficulty installing XP from your CD. My reply was that you might have a defective CD and recommeded copying it to your computer. Those are the files and directories you want to copy. I would not necessarily copy it to the Program directory. You can make a WinXP directory and copy the entire CD there. Likely this is more than you will need but at least you can determine if any files can't copy. Bob On Saturday, November 23, 2002 at 10:20 am, Kitt wrote: >What entire directories? I create a new folder in the program file. I use the copy >command. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Saturday, November 23, 2002 at 10:43 am Posted by Kitt (6 messages posted) I had try that already. it told me that I can not copy the controls. the file is missing or it has been move. On Saturday, November 23, 2002 at 10:27 am, Bob Cerelli wrote: >In your original post, you mentioned that you were having difficulty installing XP >from your CD. My reply was that you might have a defective CD and recommeded copying >it to your computer. Those are the files and directories you want to copy. I would >not necessarily copy it to the Program directory. You can make a WinXP directory >and copy the entire CD there. Likely this is more than you will need but at least >you can determine if any files can't copy. > >Bob > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Saturday, November 23, 2002 at 10:47 am Posted by Bob Cerelli (2137 messages posted) If you can't copy files from your source CD, you simply have a defective one. Ask whoever sold it to you if they can replace it. Not much else you can do with defective media. Bob. On Saturday, November 23, 2002 at 10:43 am, Kitt wrote: >I had try that already. it told me that I can not copy the controls. the file is >missing or it has been move. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 12:33 pm Posted by Matt (1 messages posted) I replaced my CDROM and the error went away. It was some kind of read error. Next time I will copy the CD to the harddrive before upgrading!! On Friday, November 22, 2002 at 8:20 pm, Kitt wrote: >I was try to install a new OS in my system. in the middle of it. it told me that > > Error: installation failed: E:\i386\asms. error message: the parameter is incorrect. > >So, how do I fits this problem? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Friday, January 17, 2003 at 8:56 am Posted by mike (2 messages posted) I have the exact same prob, install failed. there is not much info on the net for this fatal error while installing winxp. i tried just one cd-rom, just my burner, then my dvd-rom, still the same problem. I CAN copy all the files to my hd with no errors, but when i try to install from there, still gives me fatal error. please help... i am at my wits end!!! On Friday, November 22, 2002 at 8:20 pm, Kitt wrote: >I was try to install a new OS in my system. in the middle of it. it told me that > > Error: installation failed: E:\i386\asms. error message: the parameter is incorrect. > >So, how do I fits this problem? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Sunday, June 1, 2003 at 4:51 pm Posted by mrx (1 messages posted) HERE IS THE FIX FOLKS: http://www.discussanything.com/forums/archive/21/2002/11/1/17478 On Saturday, November 23, 2002 at 5:08 am, Bob Cerelli wrote: >Can you copy the CD to a directory on the hard drive first. This would help determine >if the CD is really defective. If there is a problem, you should not be able to copy >the files. Also, if this is a new purchase, you might ask for an exchange. > >Bob Cerelli >http://www.onecomputerguy.com > > HERE IS THE FIX http://www.discussanything.com/forums/archive/21/2002/11/1/17478 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Monday, June 23, 2003 at 2:45 pm Posted by Ford Davis (2 messages posted) I realize this post comes late: Same problem, yet I knew I was having problems with my motherboard ... the CD-ROM is not seen on a reboot, but only after a powerdown and a 4-5 secnd wait for the powr supply to drain down. I couldn't boot from the CD and was using floppies to install. The error message comes after a reboot abd the computer cannot see the CDROM. My disk was brand new from MS direct and was not in any way defective. After the powerdown, and the reboot I was able to complete all. Good luck as the reasons for the CD ROM disappearing can be many. Try a complete power down reboot. ------------------ On Saturday, November 23, 2002 at 10:47 am, Bob Cerelli wrote: >If you can't copy files from your source CD, you simply have a defective one. Ask >whoever sold it to you if they can replace it. Not much else you can do with defective >media. > >Bob. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Thursday, July 24, 2003 at 3:38 pm Posted by Bob Ratliff (2 messages posted) I had the same problem, but found out a little more about it. It would seem that the cd/dvd drives are seen differently during setup. When I received the error, I placed my CD into the other drive, re-booted, and setup took off where it left off and ran fine. Hope this helps. On Friday, January 17, 2003 at 8:56 am, mike wrote: >I have the exact same prob, install failed. there is not much info on the net for >this fatal error while installing winxp. i tried just one cd-rom, just my burner, >then my dvd-rom, still the same problem. I CAN copy all the files to my hd with >no errors, but when i try to install from there, still gives me fatal error. >please help... i am at my wits end!!! > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Wednesday, July 30, 2003 at 10:20 am Posted by Bobbie (1 messages posted) Bob, first let me tell you that you are a patient person and helpful. I have been trying to load XP Pro on an E-Machine that came with a home edition. I have received the same error over and over. The response about taking the cd out of the drive and putting it into the other drive (such as DVD) sounded reasonable. I am going to try that this weekend. Also, I am going to copy the Pro setup disk into a directory on my hard drive first. What are your feelings on loading Pro over Home edition instead of removing home edition? Thanks, Bobbie On Thursday, July 24, 2003 at 3:38 pm, Bob Ratliff wrote: > >I had the same problem, but found out a little more about it. It would seem that >the cd/dvd drives are seen differently during setup. When I received the error, >I placed my CD into the other drive, re-booted, and setup took off where it left >off and ran fine. Hope this helps. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Wednesday, July 30, 2003 at 12:41 pm Posted by Bob Ratliff (2 messages posted) Bobbie, That should work as well. Only reason that I didn't do that is the system that I installed it one is a floppyless one, so getting booted to dos is a little difficult. Bob On Wednesday, July 30, 2003 at 10:20 am, Bobbie wrote: >Bob, first let me tell you that you are a patient person and helpful. I have been >trying to load XP Pro on an E-Machine that came with a home edition. I have received >the same error over and over. The response about taking the cd out of the drive >and putting it into the other drive (such as DVD) sounded reasonable. I am going >to try that this weekend. Also, I am going to copy the Pro setup disk into a directory >on my hard drive first. What are your feelings on loading Pro over Home edition >instead of removing home edition? Thanks, Bobbie > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Wednesday, August 13, 2003 at 7:27 am Posted by air69bud (2 messages posted) Don't know if this helps but here it goes. I bought a new motherboard and processor and had to reload xp home edition. Some kernal error on reboot after the new motherboard, anyways all was going well after a format of my harddrive and install of xp when a box popped up. It said please insert windows xp home edition in cd rom drive and the file it was looking for was 1386. I had to browse the cd and find the file and the installation proceeded. I had to do this for about 10 other files and browse to find each one of them. Not a clue why I had to do this but it loaded up fine and so far all is working ok. If you have windows xp home edition and not sp1 it won't let you reinstall it because windows won't let you go back to a previous version. The errors on installtion happened at about the 26 minutes left part of the install. Hope this helps but again don't know why I had to do it that way in the first place. On Wednesday, July 30, 2003 at 12:41 pm, Bob Ratliff wrote: >Bobbie, > > That should work as well. Only reason that I didn't do that is the system that >I installed it one is a floppyless one, so getting booted to dos is a little difficult. > >Bob > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms error Thursday, August 14, 2003 at 9:46 am Posted by Jose (1 messages posted) This error come from a hardware failure. The CDROM is not able to read the cd poperly. I know this becuase I had the EXACT same issue, swapped out the CDRW for a new one and POOF! Problem gone. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms error Thursday, August 14, 2003 at 11:41 am Posted by air69bud (2 messages posted) Good to hear that. Like I said all is running fine and I did think of that but glad to hear that was the problem. I called microsoft on it and as usual they didn't have a clue what the problem could be. Thanks again. Steve On Thursday, August 14, 2003 at 9:46 am, Jose wrote: >This error come from a hardware failure. The CDROM is not able to read the cd poperly. > I know this becuase I had the EXACT same issue, swapped out the CDRW for a new one >and POOF! Problem gone. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms error Sunday, September 7, 2003 at 11:17 am Posted by Ken (1 messages posted) I got a brand new PC with a new CD drive and still got the XP installation problem, "Installation Failed: D:\I386\asms. Error....." The PC does not have any software. Can anyone tell me how to resolve this problem? Ken. On Thursday, August 14, 2003 at 11:41 am, air69bud wrote: > >Good to hear that. Like I said all is running fine and I did think of that but glad >to hear that was the problem. I called microsoft on it and as usual they didn't >have a clue what the problem could be. Thanks again. Steve > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Thursday, November 27, 2003 at 12:12 pm Posted by Didier (1 messages posted) This problem is an Hardware problem... don't Worry It's easy to solve : First : Check your Nap Cable. Second : Use only a CD-Rom or DVDrom Driver. not à CD burner This will certainly solve your Installation Trubles ! Enjoy !! Didier From France ! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms error Sunday, September 12, 2004 at 10:35 am Posted by ZZ (1 messages posted) Found this artice on Microsoft. Actually makes sense. Same problem with my cheap a** broke down e-machine product. Hope this fixes it...I havent tried it yet http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=307654 ZZ On Sunday, September 7, 2003 at 11:17 am, Ken wrote: >I got a brand new PC with a new CD drive and still got the XP installation problem, >"Installation Failed: D:\I386\asms. Error....." The PC does not have any software. > Can anyone tell me how to resolve this problem? > >Ken. > > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=307654 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms error Sunday, September 12, 2004 at 5:02 pm Posted by ZZ (1 messages posted) The link to the i386 error worked for me. It wasnt easy. If you are not familiar with regedit, it would be worth the while to find someone who is and can complete the steps. It might take several trys. Another thing i did was copy the I386 file from the hologramed xp pro cd to a disk. I dont have a floppy so I had to search for the correct files on my dvd drive / i 386 burnt copy. I had to keep flip flopping the cdrom and dvd rom to get all the correct files. Look for the file its missing. And I suggest printing out the windows error page I linked. That info is key. Keep it with your xp-chokenpro.cd for the next time. We did this with a maxtor 40 and a western digital 160 and it worked. This is linked to broken cdrom we were given when we bought this crap. AfroEngineering? This worked on an emachines t-3085. Im guessing its a POS. Its a f***ing shame that they let computers like mine into the mainstream. I paid out the ass for XP PRO and got no f888in support. Good thing I have another puter online. Microsoft sucks I want an update from e-machines AND microsoft..... Hardware only. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=307654 ZZ motherloader longhorn home, not On Sunday, September 12, 2004 at 10:35 am, ZZ wrote: >Found this artice on Microsoft. Actually makes sense. Same problem with my cheap >a** broke down e-machine product. Hope this fixes it...I havent tried it yet > >http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=307654 > > > > >ZZ > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Monday, June 12, 2006 at 1:37 am Posted by tshepo (1 messages posted) D:/1386/asms/6000/MSFT/VCRTL/VCRTL.MAN" ON LINE11 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Friday, August 31, 2007 at 10:42 am Posted by AW (1 messages posted) Yes, I had the same problem. It has something to do with the CD drive. Mine was an E-Machines with a CD-RW/DVD drive. The solution was to swap out the drive with an old drive and it continued on from that point without a problem. On Friday, November 22, 2002 at 8:20 pm, Kitt wrote: > >I was try to install a new OS in my system. in the middle of it. it told me that > > Error: installation failed: E:\i386\asms. error message: the parameter is incorrect. > >So, how do I fits this problem? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Tuesday, September 18, 2007 at 3:51 am Posted by Tony (1 messages posted) I had same problem it is the DVD or CD problem i changed mine for an old one i had and it worked fine no more error On Friday, November 22, 2002 at 8:20 pm, Kitt wrote: > >I was try to install a new OS in my system. in the middle of it. it told me that > > Error: installation failed: E:\i386\asms. error message: the parameter is incorrect. > >So, how do I fits this problem? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Friday, September 28, 2007 at 5:23 am Posted by harish (1 messages posted) Intallation failed L:\I386\ASMS Fatal error. One of the component that windows need to continue setup could not be installed [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Sunday, November 18, 2007 at 2:33 pm Posted by willie (1 messages posted) Thanks alot for all the help, using the suggestions here done the trick. I removed the new dvd burner and put in a older one and it worked like a charm. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 10:28 pm Posted by Curtis Mack (1 messages posted) I had a slightly different solution to this problem. I was installing XP from a CD I had burned from an ISO I downloaded from eOpen. I re-burned the CD with the setting "Disk at Once" instead of the default which allowed more files to be added later. I am not sure if this parameter fixed the problem or just re-burning the CD, but it worked perfectly. On Sunday, November 18, 2007 at 2:33 pm, willie wrote: >Thanks alot for all the help, using the suggestions here done the trick. I removed >the new dvd burner and put in a older one and it worked like a charm. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Monday, September 21, 2009 at 9:16 am Posted by eumig (1 messages posted) my solution was to pull the hard drive out of the computer, copy the I386 folder to the hard drive. when I reinstalled the hard drive back into the computer and rebooted I of course got the same error but i was able to type the path of the I386 folder. I got 22 different errors looking for the the XP CD but all I did each time was point to the I386 folder. system is up and running with out issue. I hope this helps. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 11:33 pm Posted by Pete (1 messages posted) I had the same error message when using an .iso i made to setup a VMWare player installation using EasyVMX as a starting point. Originally I coppied an .iso using Brasero, the problem was solved once I used the following command to make the .iso image: $ dd if=/dev/cdrom of=WinXP-pro.iso [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 11:09 pm Posted by Neal (1 messages posted) My resolution was a little simpler. As soon as you get the error, click Shift-f10. Then run mmc.exe and add the snap-in for computer management. In device manager downgrade your CDR driver to the generic cd-rom driver when using the upgrade driver wizard. This worked for me and allowed the installation to continue. On Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 11:33 pm, Pete wrote: >I had the same error message when using an .iso i made to setup a VMWare player installation >using EasyVMX as a starting point. >Originally I coppied an .iso using Brasero, the problem was solved once I used the >following command to make the .iso image: >$ dd if=/dev/cdrom of=WinXP-pro.iso [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 4:43 am Posted by Ismael (1 messages posted) Hi I solved the same problem by cleaning my DVD Rom driver lens. Try that. Hope that its gonna be ok [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 7:20 pm Posted by Candice (1 messages posted) I had the same problem installing Windows XP on my Dell Inspiron Mini 10. The resolution was changing the file path from CDRom0:\I386\asms to D:\I386\asms. It asked for other files and I pasted that same file path over and over until it got past that part of the setup. On Friday, November 22, 2002 at 8:20 pm, Kitt wrote: > >I was try to install a new OS in my system. in the middle of it. it told me that > > Error: installation failed: E:\i386\asms. error message: the parameter is incorrect. > >So, how do I fits this problem? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Sunday, October 10, 2010 at 2:19 am Posted by JAKOGELOMAKOGELO (1 messages posted) I was trying to install windows xp to remove windows 98, at the middle of installations, I have received an error " fotal error, files cannot be installed from I386, asms". Again, I cannot go back to the beginning because  every time if the computer is restarted, it picks on the windows xp and continuously bring the same error. Please Help. Thanks. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: e:\i386\asms Sunday, October 10, 2010 at 5:34 am Posted by Adam Bradley (8784 messages posted) You will need to start a new thread rather than bringing back one that is 8 years old. 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