I've been doing some windows 2000 installs most of them were complete installs and went smoothly.

However this one was an upgrade from 98SE.
After the NTFS convert on the restart I recieved the following:

"
Error

c:\windows\sytem\aldmgr.cpl

failed unexpectedly error 0

Fatal Error

Setup was unable to retrieve the product ID because of the following error

RegOpenKeyEx(system\setup\pid)


returned error 2 (2)

Setup was unable to retrieve the product identification of the system you are installing the Windows 2000 media may be dammaged

"

I do know that windows 2000 cd is not the problem since I have used it to install 2000 on several other pcs. I did a search on the product id error. I read something dealing with XP Pro and a .man file.

any ideas?

Thanks

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