I have a brand new system that has been put together with a new hard drive. I am attempting to load Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3. Upon boot up from the CD everything is fine including the format portion. After the format and when it starts to load the os for a few minutes i get a error message of MSJET40.DLL was not copied. I have tried reloading the OS several times and get the same result. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you

Your installation CD is faulty. Get another copy, or try to make another by re-slipstreaming the service pack and burning again. Look at http://www.bink.nu/bootcd/ for instructions

Faulty CDs for M$ OS are not unkonwn - but to be fair they are very few. Errors (file copying etc) during setup in NT/W2K frequently are traceable to less than perfect RAM. '9x is fussy about RAM; NT is very picky about RAM quality/specs; W2K even more so... The errors you get imply a problem with the CD but all the while it's RAM at fault. If you have two or more sticks, try with only one installed (as long as its the min required for W2K) and see if you can get W2K to install OK. Logically you may to try each stick in turn... If you identify a duff/fautly stick, then perhaps it can be replaced under warranty? You 'may' have a dirty CD; you 'may' have a less than clean lens in the CDROM (it can be cleaned with a CD cleaning CD - but I think you need a working OS...>); but in both cases I doubt it. Again RAM is my first supsect.

Hi Trvlr....Thanks for the help. The RAM module was the cuprit..Thanks again

The number of time it's RAM... Good to hear you resolved it OK. Credit should go to an unknown chap/chapess on the virtualdr.com NT forum about 3 or 4 years back; he/she first alerted me to the issue.