During the XP installation, F:\i386\asms fatal error message shows up. It stops the installation process then you can not go back to the old version of window to boot. Help!

Yeah, I got the same problem as well, and to make matters worse, I formatted my whole hard-drive, so I cannot go back to my old version of Windows-98. when installing the windows XP, I got the following fatal error: "D:\I386\asms\6000\MSFT\WINDOWS\common\controls\controls.man". What can be done to remedy this problem. PLEASE HELP N' ADVISE.

i've been working on this problem for a week now. i get the asms error on the 3rd reboot of the cd install, right at the point when the install wizard first loads a vga desktop. the asms files are the first point pulled off the cd at this point of the install. for some reason a cdrom driver has not been loaded prior to this first load up of the vga install phase. hence, no acces to cdrom, no continued loadup of the windows install files. using a global ntfs file system at this point has proved difficult to over come since the remote console has no aparent ability to load drivers. i've tried using a fat32/fat16 partitions, and proloading the i386 files into a directory of c: prior to starting the cd setup. at the point where the install fails to find the "asms" files, i point the install program to the i386 directory of c:, and it begins to load Problem: the registry points to \i386\ so, after every file it prompts me for the location of . for every single file. i cant hit enter that many times. problem 2: i cant get regedit to launch in console, even though every single web site out there and microsoft technet say you can. any ideas. mail to kcander01@hotmail.com