alright well thank ya all for the help

the message was Setup cannot copy the file: Cinemst2.sys (i dont know what this is)
i cleaned off the disc and used a different cd/dvd drive from another computer still getting this
i guess im gonna have to get a new Harddrive

this happens everytime i try to reformat the harddrive, ive tried this with 2 disks now so that isnt the problem , it formats the harddrive just fine but when it gets to the copying the files it gets to about 10% and says something about an error that it couldnt copy a file and to check that if im using a windows xp disc its in the dvd drive ive done this about 4 times now so im thinking its the harddrive but could it be the dvd drive? i didnt think its the dvd drive because it wouldnt even format the harddrive or even run in the first place would it.

I started playing this last night and i just got finished with the quest slaying the beatles at the beginning, i finished this went back to the town and saved my game, but today when i load it it puts me on an auto save at the beginning of the chapter whats going wrong?

is there any reason to get vista ultimate if all i use my pc for is gaming

and if i want to install vista with a clean start (reformat harddrive) which version do i buy if i want to go back to xp later?

You are stupid STFU, all those who voted are psp fanboys. p3anut