hi man, just use nlite to patch the sfc.dll on your cd. that should help, and try to use a GOOD virtual machine man. I think its because of that... i test on VMware, and see no trouble, i have tested it yesterday. i was about to reinstall my machine, so i patched a fresh made up to date xpcd. and without testing it in a vm, i installed it on my pc. no problem what so ever man... all went well, no trouble with messages, except that my sounddriver was wrong, but thats driverpack stuff so... just installed new driver after install completed, done. so let me know what you find out more ok? Damian666 Cool gozer!!!