7.5. Common Installation Problems

For the most part, the days of having to suffer through installation issues are a thing of the past. The wizards available in the Microsoft OSs tend to make installation errors much less common than they were with earlier operating systems. Several categories of errors and fixes that still crop up from time to time are as follows:

Installation disk errors

Retry the installation once more. If the errors persist, change to a new installation DVD or CD.

Inadequate disk space

Take corrective action to proceed with the installation, such as deleting temporary files and archiving old data.

Disk configuration errors

Make sure you're using hardware compatible with the operating system. Do this by checking for the presence ...

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