Thank you for the reply, however, it goes through ALL FOUR boot floppys
and into the CD to the install or repair option, then I get the nasty message.
The CD is brand new, scratch free, and I bought it from a store that builds
and sells computers, so it's classed as OEM and microsoft wants to charge
me $150.00CDN for help and I paid $219.00 CDN for the disk. Two years
ago, I paid $400.00CDN for XP, used it for 3 months and scrapped it. I didn't
like the way it worked. Thank you for your help.   AL SMITH



[log in to unmask] wrote:In a message dated 2/7/2005 9:47:46 AM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes:
I bought a refurbished DELL desktop, P3  997mhz, 20Gb drive, remnants
of Win98. I changed to 40Gbdrive, used eraser to clean it, and I'm trying to
install Win2Kpro. I get to the install or repair, click ENTER and I get a window
".SIF file corrupt or missing, value on the line in section [source disk files]
with key "sp4.cab". Setup cannot continue, pressF3 to quit"...
Is something missing from DELL because I changed the hard drive ??
This is my first experience with a DELL pc. Very well built unit.
Any suggestions appreciated.   Thank you,   AL SMITH
Hi,
  This sounds more like the CD drive is having problems reading the disk. You hit enter, and it goes looking for files on the CD, and can't find them. Is the disk scratched up?

Hope this helps,
Peter Hogan
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