Cannot install optional components

[Joe Campbell]

Folks,

Although I'm using the failure to install fax from the Optional Components
menu as an example, in fact, I am unable to install any of the optional
components
(i.e., fax, IIS, Management and Monitor Tools, etc).

My Windows CD is "Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 1." Am I
correct in assuming that SP 1 was atuomatically installed?

When I run Setup from the XP Pro disk, the Copy Error box pops up. When I
browse to F:\i386, the requested file is present (BrowseCD.jpg), but
pressing the Open button or double-clicking the file returns me to the
original Copy Error dialog.

I tried copying FX*.DL? from the XP Pro disk to my hard drive and pointing
the
browser at them. Same result.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Joe Campbell



P.S.

Another bit of info. When I installed XP Pro, the CDROM drive was assigned
letter E:. I later partitioned the drive to letters C:,D:, and E: which
shifted the CDROM drive to F:. When I first tried to install the option
components, I noticed that the Copy Error dialog was prepopulating the "Copy
files from" box with "E:/i386." I figured that the system had not allowed
for this change, so I changed the registry [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE
\Microsoft \Windows NT \CurrentVersion] Sourcepath from E: to F:. The
dialogs now correctly call for F:, but this didn't fix the main problem.

 

[Kelly]

Hi Joe,

Try the first suggestion here and good luck! http://tinyurl.com/zfr2