W2K Pro Installation Problem

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

Dan Latrimurti said:
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?
 
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