[Mahogany]

I've put a new hard drive into an Acer machine. When I run the setup for
Windows XP Home off the cd, the installation says it "setup can't access his
disk". When i press a key I then get a blue screen saying "STOP 0x0000008E"
and "SETUPDD.SYS".

Have tried with XP PRO and HOME and still the same thing.

Any Ideas

[Rich Barry]

Take a look here
http://www.aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm Scroll down the left
column to 8E.
"Mahogany" <Mahogany@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FEDEDD20-BB93-429A-9479-7C8E00334ADA@microsoft.com...
> I've put a new hard drive into an Acer machine. When I run the setup for
> Windows XP Home off the cd, the installation says it "setup can't access
> his
> disk". When i press a key I then get a blue screen saying "STOP
> 0x0000008E"
> and "SETUPDD.SYS".
>
> Have tried with XP PRO and HOME and still the same thing.
>
> Any Ideas

[BodgeitandScarper]

This is sometimes linked to incompatable hardware.

Check out this KB Article

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=330181&sd=RMVP

Scott Weedon



"Mahogany" wrote:

> I've put a new hard drive into an Acer machine. When I run the setup for
> Windows XP Home off the cd, the installation says it "setup can't access his
> disk". When i press a key I then get a blue screen saying "STOP 0x0000008E"
> and "SETUPDD.SYS".
>
> Have tried with XP PRO and HOME and still the same thing.
>
> Any Ideas

[pscyime]

Hi

For what its worth the only 3 times i have seen the setupdd.sys errors
during installation the cause has been a bad ram module

try installing with a KNOWN GOOD stick of ram

Regards

Simon


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