"Cannot configure system components..."

[williamsw2]

I have tried everything. Apple support wasn't much help. I have a late macbook pro so vista 64 bit should work. I even went to office depot this morning and picked up a full retail version of xp pro with sp2. It errored as well.
I went through the steps, it rebooted and hung at the screen that says "Setup will complete in approximately 39 minutes". After a while it errored out saying:

"An error has been encountered that prevents set up from continuing. One of the components that windows needs to continue setupu could not be installed. Data error (cyclic redundancy check).
If you are instaling from a cd, there might be a problem with the disc, try cleaning the disc or using another disc. Press OK to view set up log file."

When I press OK I see this:

Error: SXS.DLL: Syntax error in manifest or policy file D:\I386\asms\10\msft\windows\gdiplus\gdiplus.man" on line 4

Error: Installation failed: D"\I386\asms. Error message: data error (cyclic redundancy check)

Any ideas? thank you!

[Giaguara]

There may be a problem with the disc. Wipe it with a clean cloth it, or wash it, then retry installation.
What CRC errors mean on install media

[williamsw2]

Update: it works!

I exchanged my XP Home disc at Office Depot and the new one worked without problem. I even did it twice. The first time I used the 32 gig suggested boot camp partition size, formatted it to ntfs during the xp install an it worked.

I restored the partition and set it to 64 gigs and it worked again. I wonder if my 64 bit Vista disc is bad. Just seems strange to have two bad discs. Oh well, XP is running now and I'm happy. I'm only using boot camp for pc games and nothing else so XP is probably better choice.

Thanks for the help!

[Giaguara]

Glad it worked 2 bad discs in a row is a bit unusual, but it could be still possible.