reinstall of xp home edition sp2 (upgrade)

[LightninD]

Due to my computer being corrupted, I began a reinstall of my upgrade version
of XP home edition sp2. The partitioning and formatting of the hard drive
seemed to go correctly, but after the setup began, I got a message that said,
"Setup cannot create the folder: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\RAS ..." The rest of the
message says that setup cannot continue without the folder and gives the
option to try again or exit. I tried several times but got the same message
each time.

I followed the exact same proceedures (I think) when I first installed the
upgrade 2 or 3 years ago, including the formatting of the hard drive. I'm at
my wits end here--can anyone help me out?

Thanks,
Dave

 

[Andrew E.]

Youre booting to xp cd,new installation,youre then simply installing xp,
try deleting the partition,create one,then let xp format and install.Once
xp is
up & running,install SP2,formatting & partitioning should'nt be a factor at
all
at that point.

 

[LightninD]

I don't have an original version of XP. My upgrade was from Millenium
directly to sp2. When I did the upgrade a couple three years ago, I did a
partition and format, installed sp2 clean, just as I'm trying to do now, and
everything worked fine. I did not try to upgrade over ME, just used it to
qualify for the upgrade.

I'm doing the same exact process this time but am getting the message shown
in my original post. If I try reinstalling ME and then upgrading over it,
are there any known issues asssociated with that? Even if that works, are
there going to be issues because of an installation process that worked
before but no longer does?

 

[LightninD]

On the advice of an employee at Office Depot, I tried removing a network card
that I added after my last installation, and lo and behold, it worked. I got
XP to install and set up. Now I just have to get all my programs
reinstalled--more problems, I'm sure.

Thanks for the efforts,
Dave