Error copying GDIPLUS.DLL just before end of Preparing Installation during setu

[Fred Proctor]

I am upgrading Win 98 SE to XP Pro. System is a Athlon
Thunderbird 950Mhz on a Gigabyte GA-71XE Motherboard with
512mb Ram, Radeon 9000 AGP Video. Exact screen message
follows:

An error occurred copying file GDIPLUS.DLL to
C:\$WIN_NT$.~LS\i386\asms\1000
\MSFT\WINDOWS\GDIPLUS\GDIPLUS.DLL

The system could read from the specified device.

You may choose to rety the cpy, skip this file, or exit
Setup.

* If you select Retry, Setup will try to copy the file
again (which continues to fail on copying the file).

* If you select Skip File, the file will not be copied.
This option is intended for advanced users who are
familiar with the various Windows XP system files (which I
am not).

* If you select Exit Setup, you will need to run Setup
again later to install Windows XP (which I have tried
twice now).


Any advice will be appreciated, thank you

Fred

 

[By_darek]

-----Original Message-----
I am upgrading Win 98 SE to XP Pro. System is a Athlon
Thunderbird 950Mhz on a Gigabyte GA-71XE Motherboard with
512mb Ram, Radeon 9000 AGP Video. Exact screen message
follows:

An error occurred copying file GDIPLUS.DLL to
C:\$WIN_NT$.~LS\i386\asms\1000
\MSFT\WINDOWS\GDIPLUS\GDIPLUS.DLL

The system could read from the specified device.

You may choose to rety the cpy, skip this file, or exit
Setup.

* If you select Retry, Setup will try to copy the file
again (which continues to fail on copying the file).

* If you select Skip File, the file will not be copied.
This option is intended for advanced users who are
familiar with the various Windows XP system files (which I
am not).

* If you select Exit Setup, you will need to run Setup
again later to install Windows XP (which I have tried
twice now).


Any advice will be appreciated, thank you

Fred ******************************************************
I had a simmilar problem... after one year I find new

bios for motherboard..(they find out that it can't instal
xp in that special configuration, e.g. that motherboard
and that graphic card...) flashed bios and there is no
problem instaling winxp. I have a different motherboard
and graphic.. but anyway. Put (flash) new bios and it may
help