XP Home installation

[Guest]

I am having difficulty installing an OEM version of Windows XP Home. The
system is brand new and has never had an operating system. I made the six
floppy disk set to initialize setup. After installing these disks, and being
prompted to enter my XP Home CD...Install begins. Install terminates and I
receive a message that says "The following value in the .SIF file used by
setup is corrupted or missing. Value 0 on the line in section
[SourceDisksFiles] with key "SP2.cab". Setup cannot continue. To quit setup,
Press F3"

 

[Guest]

The only times i have seen this type of behavior it has turned out that i
have a bad CD-rom drive on my hands or the cd itself is scratched or marred.
sounds to me like it might be your cd-rom drive. even though it is new i
would try and put a diffrent one in its place just for the install and see if
it goes smoothly or not.

 

[Comp Tech]

Why are you using the 6-boot disks? The XP CD is bootable (if it is legal).
Boot up with the XP CD and then follow the prompts to format and install
Windows XP.

The only times i have seen this type of behavior it has turned out that i
have a bad CD-rom drive on my hands or the cd itself is scratched or
marred.
sounds to me like it might be your cd-rom drive. even though it is new i
would try and put a diffrent one in its place just for the install and see
if
it goes smoothly or not.

I am having difficulty installing an OEM version of Windows XP Home. The
system is brand new and has never had an operating system. I made the
six
floppy disk set to initialize setup. After installing these disks, and
being
prompted to enter my XP Home CD...Install begins. Install terminates and
I
receive a message that says "The following value in the .SIF file used by
setup is corrupted or missing. Value 0 on the line in section
[SourceDisksFiles] with key "SP2.cab". Setup cannot continue. To quit
setup,
Press F3"