Please help! Had an old Maxtor HD on my PIII 450mHz system that wouldn't allow me to re-install an OS after I had formatted it... so I bought a new Maxtor hard drive and I am having the SAME issues. I can format the drives, but when it starts to install the .dll files, it says that certain files are unable to be copied properly. I tried a different OS disk (win 2k pro and win XP pro) and neither of them work. In fact I tried using 4 totally different disks borrowed from friends, yet I get the same issue always. So I am tempted to think that the issue is something other than my copy of 2k pro or XP pro. Any suggestions?