I got a good one for the fellows and LADIES?

i have a freind who had some problems with his hard drive(he got a ton of adware and couple of minor trojans) rather then fix it he bought a new one and gave me the old one.this is where it gets fun!I want to add it as my master and slave my old hard drive for size reasons well even to slave it would be ok.
I installed it to my pc then booted it with my windows disk and reformated it just to start fresh!well the problem i am haveing is it will not install windows as it is copying the files needed for the install it stops says it cannot copy a file and well from then on it want copy any after this point?The file it stops at is regopt:.chm and then everything that follows i get the same cannot install?

ANYONE! have any ideas this drive is only about 1 year ols it is a maxon 40 something or another 80 gig i can get specific part #if needed it is also at this time the only HD installed on my pc as i was trouble shooting the common issues of pc confusion.

also when i try to boot straight to the disk it gives me the cannot boot because the NTLDR is missing? i have been booting from my rom with windows disk in it?
I am lost and not into trowing things away if they are not broke!


CAN ANYONE HELP A DEFENSLESS PC NUT?

 

It will be one of three things, all three has happened to me. Bad disc[burnt copy], reader wont read that file, bad stick of memory. ed

 

well is a licensed disk and have reinstalled windows to my other HD several times?
anything else?

 

ok i skipped the files it said it couldnt copy is there a way to check and fix the OS as i am sure it will become unstable?

 

ok idid the 8 step windows repair windows apears to be stable thank you but got one more issue
the drive boots great on the first boot after install but after that every time i boot my pc doesnt seem to be able to recognize it i have moved it from slave to master and vise versa and get the same results have changed the boot sequence no help?it is on auto detect do i need to change that am not good with this stuff can anyone help me i need to update windows but if the pc wont read the drive is there everytime it boots it makes it hard?

 

ok i got the HD wotking good windows installed but now i am tring to update everything the 3rd time i rebooted for installs my pc didnt recognize the HD i installed i unplaged it from the ide cable plugged it back up it recognized it 3 times then wouldnt show it as being installed if i do the same i get the same results it will boot a couple of times then it doesnt show it again?i did the 8 step process from ealier it work for a few times now its doing it again it is weird the HD prcesses fine as long as the pc shows it as being installed i also have done the boot thing put it as slave and master cable select it does the same thing got any suggestions on what to do next it is a maxor HD 80 meg?