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WinXP SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED installation fix

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
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I got a Blue Screen Of Death with the error SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED while trying to set up a clean install of WinXP this evening.

This install repeatedly failed after the Windows Setup finished loading after booting from CD-ROM, and just before it would have presented the text welcome screen.

The problem turned out to be small smudges on the CD surface. Apparently, SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED can be triggered by a failed read while booting the installation environment.

Other posts I found online reported this being caused by loose drive cables, conflicting IDE drive cables, bad CD-ROM drives, as well as damaged or smudged installation media.

I wasted half an hour reseating cables and memory chips and fishing around with Google for a solution.

Hopefully this will save someone some search time.

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