Have tred to install XP on my PC, but during the installation process for some reason it doesnt copy all the files off the CD, lots of exe files and dll files are unable to be located, tried the cd on another pc and it works fine, my system is easily fast enough so i am baffled at this, can someone help please. thanx.

Steve, did you reformat the drive prior to install or are you upgrading from a previous OS?

I had the EXCACT same problem, and have had it with the windows 2000 professional installation altso. It cant locate some files, but when I try another time, it can be found, and another can't. Atlast the only file it couln't find was the mail.chm file, which I could do without :) If anyone can understand why it cant find the file when we know its there? Cheers

I formatted the drive completely before i did this, so in theory it should go on perfectly, however as mentioned above it'cant locate' files during the install process. any idea's??

Had the same with a burned copy but orignal no probs

When I get to the blue installation screen that says windows setup.It kicks me out and says that the setup stops because damadge can be done to my computer and that it might have a virus on or that I must uninstall any new hard drives or hard drive controlers. But I do not have any new ones.Then it says that I must run chkdsk /f and restart my computer. I have done that and the proplem still persists.There was no errors found with either chkdsk or scandisk.It also says that another problem can be that my hard disk is not configured proparly or that it is not proparly termenated. What does that mean?

Check to see if your cd-rom speed is fast enough for the cd. I had a program that would not install on a cd-rom that was less then 32x.