Uninstall a Failed XP Pro Upgrade Back to W2K?

[TCL]

Cleaned and prepped a Win 2000 Pro machine before I started XP Pro
upgrade. Even replaced power supply and Ghosted Win2k image to new hard
drive. It rebooted after first phase and is still looping. Why the
menu has "restart from last known good configuration" at this point I
don't know. I then started the in-place "R" repair and now it gives me
the infamouse "missing ASMS file" message. ASMS is actually a folder.
Already did the http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311755 KB Article on
this thrice. Any way to revert to Win2K when XP has not even started
once? Yes, thank goodness, I did keep the original hard drive as is.
But I would like to fix the issue as it is right now. TIA

 

[TCL]

Cleaned and prepped a Win 2000 Pro machine before I started XP Pro
upgrade. Even replaced power supply and Ghosted Win2k image to new hard
drive. It rebooted after first phase and is still looping. Why the
menu has "restart from last known good configuration" at this point I
don't know. I then started the in-place "R" repair and now it gives me
the infamouse "missing ASMS file" message. ASMS is actually a folder.
Already did the http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311755 KB Article on
this thrice. Any way to revert to Win2K when XP has not even started
once? Yes, thank goodness, I did keep the original hard drive as is.
But I would like to fix the issue as it is right now. TIA

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workaround==================================

since the whole problem in KB Article centered around the CD-ROM, I
eliminated the CD Drive altogether by copying the I386 folder to the
hard drive and then restarted the PC which went into Setup where I left
off. Every time it could not find a file, I pasted in this: C:\I386

After about 30-40 pastes, it finally completed and booted into XP Pro
where I have started doing updates. Oh well.