I tried to install windows xp and took all your advice on how to do it, and I encountered this error Error while copying controls.man to C:\$WIN_NT$~LS|i386\asms\6000\MSFT\WINDOWS\COMMON\CONTROLS\CONTROLS A device attached to the system is not functioning. So I skipped the file and then it said: The file C:\$WIN_NT$~LS|i386\asms\6000\MSFT\WINDOWS\COMMON\CONTROLS\CONTROLS.man is corrupt it contains all zeros. And then it exited the setup. Has anyone seen this before? What can I do?

Hi, Jenni. I found the previous post... you have my deepest sympathies. Not anything aginst anyone who posted, it was just a lot of information to sift through. My first impression is that your CDROM drive might be malfunctioning, and data is having trouble copying to the hard drive. Have you ever had problems with the CDROM? Also, do you know how much free disk space you had before you started?

check the cables and make sure they are attached correcly and reset your ram and video card or othter device and try if it works

Well In the drive that I was trying to install on, which is the system save, has 2GB per section. My main drive has 20GB. I have never had any trouble with the CDROM as of yet. How would I go about reseting the ram and video card? Thank you Jenni

G'day Jenni, you have a burnt copy of the original microsoft cd, under some circumstances copying corrupts the controlsman file. (nothing actually gets written to that file, but it retains its original identity) you can copy your cd to the harddrive and "replace" the controlsman file with a good one, then install off the hdd, or burn another cd off the hdd, once you have replaced that file all is ok. If you have any trouble get back.

Jenni ! Some people would advise you to download the CONTROLS.MAN from some sites and replace the damage CONTROLS.MAN with this new file: some says it works, other says it does not work. My guess would be that the CONTROLS.MAN that you would download could be of different version than the one that you install. The reason for this damaged files is that the real content of this CONTROLS.MAN file in particular, or a lot of other files in this Windows XP CD in general, is within the subchannel of the original ISO Windows XP CD (this is a successful attempt of Microsoft to prevent you from making "diskcopy" of this Windows XP series). Best solution: Ask someone who has the WORKING copy of this Windows XP. Ask them to copy the complete content of this working CD onto a directory (created by you) on your hard drive, and first try to install from this directory to see if the installation go smoothly. Of course if you are afraid whether Microsoft would change the content of this new directory (that contains the Windows XP installation files) that you created as mentioned above, before installing from this directory, you may want to "duplicate" this directory (that contains Windows XP setup files) onto another location on your hard drive so that you will have two exact copies of this directory. Once the installation goes smoothly, you can save this content of this directory onto a CD for future installation if your system would become usuable that requires a clean installation of everything. Note: Some people reported even the Nero or the Adaptec Platinum 5.0 could not successfully "disk copy" this Windows XP; a few other said this Nero or Adaptec Platinum just do well. Some people had the same problem using some DVD-ROM driveS to install this Windows XP even with the very original ISO CD of this Windows XP: they eliminate this problem by using just a CD-ROM drive or another CD-ROM drive. Since the real content of these "damaged" files resides in the subchannel of the original ISO CD, ( this is a successful attempt of Microsoft to prevent you from making a backup copy of this Windows XP CD [the reason you may make a backup copy would be that you may fear that if you use this orginal copy, if something happens to it, it would damage]), you can use the classic way of copying files: use Windows Explorer in Windows 98 to copy the content of a working Windows XP CD onto your hard drive, and then burn this content onto a CD (disk). Of course if you do so, you will not be able to boot from this newly created CD. But there are boot disks (floppy disks) of this Windows XP around that you can use to intall with this newly created CD. Of course if you follow this intruction and the newly created CD does not work, then you may consider trying this process on a different good CD-ROM drive. Common sense tells you that since the real content of these damaged files could not be read (correctly) by your current hardware and/or system, you may try this "diskcopy" process under Windows 98 with different CD-ROM drives to see if you can successfully "diskcopy" the Windows XP series.