Odd failure on SP-2 install

[Steve Robertson]

Hi,



I'm trying to install SP-2 on 2 similar desktop computers running XP Pro.
The installation on the first PC went well with no problems. On the second
PC I receive the following error message:



"Extraction Failed

The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable."



And then

"The file or directory windows XP-KB835...-ENU.exe is corrupt and
unreadable. Please run the Chkdsk utility."

After which the system goes into a blue screen error and reboots.



Chkdsk finds and corrects several hundred orphaned files on the drive - all
in the temporary directory which the extraction utility was attempting to
use.



When I try the installation again the exact same thing happens. I've used
the same copy of the downloaded network version of SP-2 in each case. It
worked well on one PC and fails completely on the other. Any ideas?



Thanks for your help!



Steve

 

[Jon]

Perhaps the installation file got damaged as you transferred it from one
computer to the other.

Try recopying it from the first computer to the second, , and try again

Jon