W2K Pro Installation Problem

[Guest]

Being the good neighbor that I am, I volunteered to rebuild a computer for a neighbor, because his HP Pavilio Win ME machine seemed to have problems. First I verified his update status, becuase the machine seemed to boot and start fine. So, I updated with all updates except IE6 which I saved for last. However, when the IE6 continued to fail over and over again and his 5.5 version was crashing. So, I decided that I'd just rebuild with W2K Pro. However, (after fomatting from FAT to NTFS and creating 4 logical partitions) I started the setup process, but it repeatedly fails with "Setup cannot copy the file" errors. I went to the MS K/B and found a number of articles but they all relate to W2K installs over an existing OS? Any suggestions?

 

[A Future Computer Scientist]

When you go through the install process, do you select "format to NTFS" or
do you select "not making any changes"?

Being the good neighbor that I am, I volunteered to rebuild a computer for

a neighbor, because his HP Pavilio Win ME machine seemed to have problems.
First I verified his update status, becuase the machine seemed to boot and
start fine. So, I updated with all updates except IE6 which I saved for
last. However, when the IE6 continued to fail over and over again and his
5.5 version was crashing. So, I decided that I'd just rebuild with W2K Pro.
However, (after fomatting from FAT to NTFS and creating 4 logical
partitions) I started the setup process, but it repeatedly fails with "Setup
cannot copy the file" errors. I went to the MS K/B and found a number of
articles but they all relate to W2K installs over an existing OS? Any
suggestions?