I had a similar problem about a year ago, when trying to install win 98. If copying (as gudel suggested) does not work, try simply going w/ the install, if it will allow you. I did this, it allowed me ...

Here's the problem:<BR><BR>1. My Win2K SP4 installation on my SATA drive is corrupted, I get an error on initial bootup which says certain Windows files are missing ...

If Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable is rolled back or is corrupted after Windows Update, you need to follow the solutions ...