error in copying file a0obnels.sys while upgrading to xp pro

[Abhinav Guliani]

I have home edition of windows xp installed on my computer, and am now trying
to upgrade it to windows xp professional edition by doing an upgrade that I
received from my university. When I put in the CD and select the option to
upgrade, I get the following message when it is preparing to install (copying
installation files to the system):

"An error occurred copying file a0obnels.sys to C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\a0obnels.sys"
It further tells me that I can choose to Retry (which in unable to re-copy
the file), or skip it (if I am advanced user and know how to fix any
potential problem that may occur later on in the installation process), or
cancel installation.
I do not what the lack of this file might cause, so I opted not to continue.
I was unable to find any info about this file on any of the search engines
(they do not even recognize the name). What can I do to fix this? I would
prefer not to re-install the entire operating system after a format of
data/hard-drive to fix that problem? Please let me know they best way to
handle this. I do have the original windows home edition installation cd
with me, if that can help.

Thanks in advance for your replies.

 

[Jim]

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:25:01 -0700, Abhinav Guliani <Abhinav

I have home edition of windows xp installed on my computer, and am now trying
to upgrade it to windows xp professional edition by doing an upgrade that I
received from my university. When I put in the CD and select the option to
upgrade, I get the following message when it is preparing to install (copying
installation files to the system):

"An error occurred copying file a0obnels.sys to C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\a0obnels.sys"
It further tells me that I can choose to Retry (which in unable to re-copy
the file), or skip it (if I am advanced user and know how to fix any
potential problem that may occur later on in the installation process), or
cancel installation.
I do not what the lack of this file might cause, so I opted not to continue.
I was unable to find any info about this file on any of the search engines
(they do not even recognize the name). What can I do to fix this? I would
prefer not to re-install the entire operating system after a format of
data/hard-drive to fix that problem? Please let me know they best way to
handle this. I do have the original windows home edition installation cd
with me, if that can help.

Thanks in advance for your replies.

Why do you wish to upgrade ?

 

[Abhinav Guliani]

Jim, I want to upgrade because I am interested in the Remote Desktop feature
of Professional Edition of XP. Also, the fact that I have an upgrade
available to me, there is no harm in upgrading to Professional Edition. Do
you have any intuition about this a0obnels.sys file that is causing me this
trouble?

 

[Abhinav Guliani]

I tried installing the upgrade files again through the same CD. Something
interesting happened: I did not get an error message for that file, but the
same exact message for a file named
ad30ri68.sys
Very peculiar! Then I restarted the computer, and tried running the upgrade
process again, and got the same error message, but for yet another new file:
ari917x3.sys
I restarted the computer again, and now the same trend continued for yet
another file, and so forth:
a519ne6e.sys
avmac5j9.sys
etcetera
I have not yet been able to run through the process successfully. Another
strange thing is that I keep getting the same message for the same file until
I restart the system, in which case I get the same message for a 'new' file.

What could possibly be wrong here?