Missing in Installing XP

[Yuniverse]

I have a T-bird 1.33 GHz machine with Iwill KK266/Raid board, ViperII 32MB Video, Linksys Networkcard, HP CDRW/DVD drive, CD-Rom with couple of Maxtor and WD 30GB drives.

I've tried installing Win2000 and after couple of uses after installation, it gives me the Win2k version of the Blue Screen. After many tries, i've given up on win2k.

I've been trying to install XP on it and it keeps telling me during several stages of setup that it cannot read various files. When i skipped those files, it seemed it installed ok, but soon problems began to appear.(understandably)

I would like to ask the experts here: Is there any way to "fix" what hasn't been installed? Like anyway to repair the whole XP?
I don't know what my problem is: Video card? Motherboard? CD-Rom? Network Card?

Please Help!

thanks in advance
Yun

 

[johnlog]

Try reinstalling Win XP over itself. That sometimes fixes a poor or failed installation problem.

 

[NogginBoink]

Sounds like you've got hardware problems.

You can try copying the \i386 folder from the CD to the hard drive and installing XP from the hard drive.

You could try cleaning the CD, or replacing the CD ROM drive as well.

You could try SFC /scannow to replace missing system files from source media. But that won't register components that need to be registered. An upgrade-in-place, as johnlog suggested, would be a better option.

 

[Yuniverse]

I tried upgrading it, but when it has about 16 minutes left to go, it just reboots on me... every time. I'm gonna try a different Power Supply, CD-Rom, replacing them one at a time. I've already tried my video card, but same thing.

 

[ChunkiMunki]

also try disabling UDMA and USB in the BIOS and try re-installing XP or Win2k. I had the same problem with missing files and it was a memory problem. I got a stick of Kingston 64MB and Win2K installed fine, then I re-installed my cheap RAM.

 

[Yuniverse]

Well after umpteenth times trying to install with each component discarded, the CD-Rom turned out to be the culprit.

I've used someone else's CD-Rom Player and it installed without a hitch.

thank you all for your help