Experience I have a Msc compatible degree for system engineering and am Sun certified system administrator. I also received training for Perl and Project Management. Lastely, I have been programming for the last 15 years.
Expert: Ralf Hack Date: 7/23/2008 Subject: Windows XP restore error
Question I need some help with my compaq laptop restoring. I have 3 restore disks for the original version of win xp. I put in the restore disk#1 in the cd-drive to restore the harddrive, no problem. Halfway through disk#2 I always get an error: "error#49, write fault". I have tried this over 100 times flipping the laptop upsidedown, sidesways, anything to make it read and write correctly. I even bought a brand new harddisk 160gb (5x bigger than the original harddrive), and now by the end of disk#3 I get another error:"not enough memory on disk". I am completely fedup with this. Please, if anybody has any useful information for me I'd highly appreciate it.
Thank you.
VJ.
Answer Hi,
"error#49, write fault". - means your old hard disk is broken -- possibly the reason why you need some restoring.
the "not enough memory on disk" could be that your restore disk is corrupt and tries to obtain more disk space than there is. Your question is a bit thin with details so I am not sure what the reason may be.
Have you attempted a new install of Windows XP before doing the restore to validate the new hard disk ?
