Please Engineers in the house. Am encountering a fatal error during my Window xp pro set up on my dell inspiron1200
below is the reeor message diaplayed and the set up could not proceed:

An error hasd been encountered that prevent
set up from continuing.

One of the componenet that windows needs to
continue set up could not be installed

The request could not be performed because of an I/O devices

Fatal error:
Installation failed:\1386\asms

Please help me out, I dont know what to do again, and every time I on the laptop
it will restart the set up and the error message will come up.

amosfunmi@gmail.com
Thanks