In-Place Upgrade stops copying files

[Bob]

I load the Win2K installation disc and proceed to do the Win2K
In-Place Upgrade.

Windows deletes the old files and builds the list of replacements.
Then it begins to copy them but stops after a short while. It says
that it cannot copy a particular file and asks me to Retry, but fails
when I do. So I say Ignore, but the same thing happens on the next
file.

My optical drive is in perfect working order (to the best of my
knowledge). I have not had this problem before when I used an older
CD-RW. Now I am using an NEC 3540 CD/DVD burner.

I suppose I could install my old CD-RW to see what happens, but that
should not make any difference.

Does anyone know what is happening?

 

[Guest]

I am havinig the exact same problem. Any help out there for this.

 

[Dan Seur]

This is usually a hardware problem. For some reason unknown to me (I've
encountered it several times) the W2k install process finds errors when
reading these files from an otherwise normal-seeming CD reader. The
problem sometimes goes away with many many retries, and always goes away
with a different CD drive. I've never discovered it to be a CD disk
problem.

 

[Dan Seur]

As Pegasus says in your other thread, copying the W2k CD to a hard drive
first is another way to eliminate this problem. It also makes
installation (and any subsequent reinstallations) a whole lot faster.

 

[Sid Knee]

This is usually a hardware problem. For some reason unknown to me (I've
encountered it several times) the W2k install process finds errors when
reading these files from an otherwise normal-seeming CD reader. The
problem sometimes goes away with many many retries, and always goes away
with a different CD drive. I've never discovered it to be a CD disk
problem.

Wild .... I've seen a lot of this too in the last few days, trying to
re-install Win2K. Would copy a few files then trip up on one. Re-trying
was sometimes successful (especially if I held the return key down).
Then it would copy some more and trip up again. Used a different CDROM
drive .... same problem. Made another install CD copy from the master -
same problem.

Never happened before. Finally got it installed by being persistent but
I think I had to skip one file. Incidentally, its always the same files
it trips up on. Must be something in the air.

Clean forgot about the old win98 trick of copying the install cd to the
HD first, as Pegasus suggested. guess you'd have to format the HD as FAT
to do that.