Windows XP SP2 installation Problem

I am tring to install a fresh copy of Xp SP2 and I cannot do it. Everytime it gets to the 51% mark it says it cannot copy the file. It tells me:

"The file (file name here) was not copied correctly.

The file Setup placed on your hard drive is not a vaild Windows XP system image. If you are installing from a CD, there may be a problem with the CD.

To retry hit Enter
ESC to skip
F3 to Quit "

For some files if I hit ENTER engouh times it will copy, and other times it will not. I put a new hard drive in. After my 5th attempt, I took all my PCI and PCI-E cards out before the install. And put another DVD-rom drive in to may sure it was the the drive's fault. I also cleared the bios before hand also, just in case. I also made another copy of the XP CD from an iso image that I get from my school and used it that one also.

Anyone have a clue to what is wrong.


Thank You In Advance for reading and/or suggestions

AMD X2 dual
2gb ram
300 Sata HD

 

Hi Slientsail,
I often do my installs by copying the cd to the harddrive and installing from there [c prompt i386\winnt method]. More often than not I run into your problem on several files. Depending upon what the files are, I will attempt to "retry" the file copy several times and if unsuccessful will choose "ignore" and continue with the install anyway. I make note of what the file was. With very few exceptions, the install completes and does not have a problem. Once XP is up and running, I check for the files reported as missing and if not found, will copy them to their proper place. If all else fails, and depending upon the numbers of file copy glitches you have, you may wish to give this a shot. With a bit of luck, the files skipped during the install, may be non "system critical" such as waves or drivers you don't need at the moment. While this isn't an ideal way to install xp, it works for me....so far.

 

Thank you Goddez1 and Christer, your suggestion helped. Before reading your posts I replaced all the ribbion cables in the pc and made a new copy of the XP cd at low speed and it worked. I think it was the cd-rom ribbion cable because before I could not get Norton Ghost to install my backup image, now it is installing.

If had followed both your suggestions it would have saved me LOTS of time. Thank You Again