I just overcame this issue that had me sweating it all night long.
Couldnt find a lick of info on this so Here is my solution.
I was doing an inplace upgrade of windows 2000 server to windows 2003.
During the blue screen setup phase I was getting errors : Setup cannot
copy the file CMNICFG.XML
After skipping that file I got the same error for the following files
ipcfg.xml, osinfo.xml, potscfg.xml, pppcfg.xml, trustmon.dll,
trustmon.mof, twcli32.msi, and dwil1033.dll
Skipping the files still allowed me to continue to the gui setup
phase, but immedatly upon starting I woud get the errors:
Fatal Error: internal setup data structures are corruptedhe
and another error : SAM initilization fialed because of the following
error. Directory service cannot start 0xC00002e1
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The problem was that my System32 directory somehow lost its
permissions. I had to do an seperate install of windows to get to the
file system, and once I did I could see that my system32 directory had
entries for Administrator, and SYSTEM .. but there were no permissions
assigned at all!
I gave full control to administrator and SYSTEM and restarted the
setup and all the files copied correctly, and I was able to resume my
2k3 setup . Its almost done now , and I feel like smoking an F'ing
cigar!
Hope that helps somone out there.
Cheers
-Jay
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