Copy Error on WinXP Repair Intallation

Hi joejensen,

The CD may be scratched.  Can you copy all the files off your CD manually?

Cheers,
IceRaven

It sounds amazingly similar to Windows 98, which also couldn't locate it's own drivers even though it was sitting directly on top of them.  While it could be a scratched disk, it might also be some sort of read update anomally in the installer.  I haven't had that problem in XP but I haven't installed XP in a couple of years.  In 98 is was more of a wrong directory type thing most of the time, but it would often go to the correct directory and not "see" the correct driver that was inside.  If it was me, I guess I would tunnel around in other directories and then back to the correct one to see if it updates.  If not, maybe try opening the cdrom and then closing it again might force it to reread the files, or possibly burn the hard to see files to another disk and swap out during the install process.  Now that I think about it, I vaguely recall one file with some letters out of place, mispelled esentially.  Is the mismatch in your filename spelling that you used above an error or are you genuinely talking about two different spellings. In your question above you have "migregbd.ex_" as the spelling for the unextracted file on disk, and "MIGREGDB" as the sought after file name.  I cut and pasted the names here from your question and the d and b or D and B are transposed.  I'm pretty confident I had the same problem on one file now that I think about it.  If thats the case, I guess you could extract the file from the install disk, rename it to the same name as the installer likes to call it, then rearchive it.  I don't know how you rearchive the files so that you get the _ back on them, but I suspect it probably isn't two difficult.  Once you get the file into the correct format, you could burn it to a separate disk and the substitute when the error pops up.  If its not a spelling problem then the only other thing I can think of just off the top of my head, would be to just ignore it and then go back after the install and fix it once you have access to the desktop and necessary utilities. Come to think of it, I think that's what I did at the time.   From the google hits, looks like migregdb.exe is correct but didn't see any reference to spelling.  Let me know if you can't get it for one reason or the other and why and I'll keep looking.  Good Luck.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=failed+to+locate+the+correct+setup+files

Copying the i386 directory from the CD to the HDD worked.  I didn't even have to point at it, wierd.   Thanks...joe

Thanks.

IceRaven: You suggested the above so go here:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20975178/Points-for-IceRaven.html