80070241 Error

> Okay, I've been fighting this one now for almost a week and still it does
> not
> work.
>
> I have downloaded the 32bit ISO now 3 times (yes, the message about the
> server being busy is probably because of me). Even though the MD5
> checksum
> is correct, people still tell me that it's probably a bad download.
>
> I've burned close to a half dozen DVDs, all but the very first one at 1x
> or
> 2x speed. I've tried different burners, different burning software,
> different brands of DVDs. If it's not a bad download, then it must be a
> bad
> burn. All of these DVDs work perfectly in a second machine.
>
> I can install in a machine with and IDE drive, but if I use SATA drives I
> get the dreaded 80070241 error anywhere between 10% on up to 90% through
> copying files.
>
> I've broken my RAID configuration and used the drives as single SATA
> drives,
> but still got the error. I set the SATA controller in BIOs to emulate a
> standard IDE controller, but still got the error.
>
> I copied the install files to a network share, created a Win2003 WinPE
> disk
> and tried to install over the network. Still got the error. I copied the
> files locally to one of the drives, booted the Vista disk and used the
> Shift-F10 trick to break out into WinPE and installed from one local drive
> to
> another, and still got the error.
>
> My system is built on an Asus K8V-MX board, with a pair of Western Digital
> SATA drives. I've installed WinXP as well as Win2003 on this box and
> didn't
> have any problems.
>
> The only option left for me is to install WinXP and attempt an upgrade.
> Of
> course, this is not a good solution and I really hope that Microsoft will
> do
> something about fixing this.