Sometimes you get this error when attempting to install third party drivers for Windows 2000 setup.
File \aarich.sys caused an unexpected error (4111) at line x in d:\nt\private\ntos\boot\setup\oemdisk.c
Sometimes the file is aarsi3x.sys
I recently had to struggle with this again and I figured it was worth posting. This is due to the file structure on the third party driver disk. In my case Dell had a CD that built the driver disk for me improperly. They put all the files in the root of the floppy. For Windows 2000 you only need the setuptxt.oem file (and the readme.txt doesn’t hurt) in the root of the disk. All the other driver files should go in a subdirectory named win2000.
I’ve had this problem twice. Unfortunately for me they were so far apart that I wasted just as much time during the second incident as I did the first. Hopefully now that I’ve written it down here I won’t forget in the future…besides how many more Windows 2000 installs will I be doing?
