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I would think you need to try a different hdd as you have mentioned it is fairly old. &nbsp;It may have a bad sector or two.
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I would think you need to try a different hdd as you have mentioned it is fairly old.  It may have a bad sector or two.

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Have you replaced the cable to the cd drive.<br />
some more info on CRC errors<br />
<a href="http://www.softwarepatch.com/tips/cyclic-redundancy.html" rel="ugc">http://www.softwarepatch.com/tips/cyclic-redundancy.html</a>
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Have you replaced the cable to the cd drive.
some more info on CRC errors
http://www.softwarepatch.com/tips/cyclic-redundancy.html [http://www.softwarepatch.com/tips/cyclic-redundancy.html]

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either a bad hard disk or bad installation media. 
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either a bad hard disk or bad installation media.

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sorry...or dirty optical drive
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i wiped the hard drive totally clean using seatools and it worked after that. thanks anyone who said something like that.
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i wiped the hard drive totally clean using seatools and it worked after that. thanks anyone who said something like that.

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Hi, when i go to install XP i get the cyclic redundancy check error everytime. I've tested the memory(RAM) &nbsp;and i know it's not the disc or cd drive because i've tried several of each. Also, my hard drive is fairly old and low capacity (30GB). Help on this error would be great.
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Hi, when i go to install XP i get the cyclic redundancy check error everytime. I've tested the memory(RAM)  and i know it's not the disc or cd drive because i've tried several of each. Also, my hard drive is fairly old and low capacity (30GB). Help on this error would be great.

Cyclic Redundancy Check error when installing XP

Microsoft Windows XP is the sixth release of the NT series of operating systems, and was the first to be marketed in a variety of editions: XP Home and XP Professional, designed for business and power users. The advanced features in XP Professional are generally disabled in Home Edition, but are there and can be activated. There were two 64-bit editions, an embedded edition and a tablet edition.

Windows XP

This topic area includes legacy versions of Windows prior to Windows 2000: Windows 3/3.1, Windows 95 and Windows 98, plus any other Windows-related versions including Windows Mobile.

Windows OS

Storage devices include any device used for storing and retrieving digital information. Hard disk drives (HDDs) use one or more rigid ("hard") rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material. Data is accessed in a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order and not only sequentially. The primary competing technology for secondary storage is flash memory in the form of solid-state drives (SSDs), but HDDs remain the dominant medium for secondary storage due to advantages in price per bit and per-device recording capacity. CD-RW (Compact Disc-ReWritable) is a digital optical disc storage format that allows information to be stored outside the mechanical HDD.