A friend is trying to install XP PRO in his computor. He has tried it several times in his and his wifes computor and he gets the same error. It says" Message:
An error has been encountered that prevents setup from continuing.

One of the components that windows needs to continue could not be installed.

Manifest Parse Error: invalid at the top level of the document.

Error

SXS.DLL Syntax Error in Manifest or policy file,

" D:\1386\asms\6000\MSFT\WINDOWS\COMMON\CONTROLS\.MA N" on line 0

Does anyone know a way to fix this. Is this a faulty install disk? It is the exact same error in both of his systems. Any help at all would be appreciated.