Link to home
Start Free TrialLog in
Avatar of EndUserTech
EndUserTechFlag for United States of America

asked on

What does this error mean? Line 0 of hivecls.inf is corrupted. Setup cannot continue. To quit setup, press F3

Upon installing a fresh copy of windows on a sata HD right at the very end of copying all the files it throws the error.  
  - Motherboard - gigabyte ga-ma785gm-us2h
  - 500g HD
  - DVD ROM
I have DVD as IDE and HD as SATA.  I wanna say that the BIOS is not seeing the HD because everything is listed as IDE.  I have a XPSP2 disk so I SlipStreamed RAID drivers to a burned disk.  I've heard it might be a bad disk, bad burn or improper burn and so on...but none of those seems to me problem.  I can install Ubuntu just fine.  The motherboard disk does not boot up at all though I can open files through Ubuntu.
ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION
Avatar of rindi
rindi
Flag of Switzerland image

Link to home
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
Start Free Trial
rindi is correct; it only means, when it tries to install the registry hive, it finds line 0 of hivecls.inf is bad.
it can also be caused by a bad cd drive, cd cable, or cd controller on board
Avatar of EndUserTech

ASKER

no