I'm not quite sure of what you are trying to say.. Windows will format the HDD and then begin copying setup files. All is fine but then at certain points it will fail to copy files. I can skip or retry to copy a file; if I skip it the next file will fail to copy also. After skipping 10 or so files the installation just locks up. It has done this at 3 different percentages with totally different files. This leads me to believe that it is not a faulty CD. I think the HDD is just fishy..
I have no idea on how to copy the files manually. Windows doesn't give you that many options during setup and I've never done this before. I've built several computers and have been through the Windows installation countless times and I have never encountered this type of problem. Also, I must add; on the attempt before setup failed to copy files it made it all the way through, rebooted and then during the actual installation I got errors that the HardDisk driver could not be found, the CD ROM driver could not be found, and also the Battery driver could not be found.
I'm planning on just RMAing the HDD back to Western Digital...