Reinstall After Hard Drive Errors

The system restore from the hard drive is a great idea except when your hard drive is dropping bad sectors left and right. One of my clients bought a 3000 Desktop with Windows Vista Business 13 months ago. I got the call that the system wouldn't boot. Corrupted system registry. Auto-Repair didn't work. Backed up the data and went the F11 route, but always getting an error at the tail end that a file didn't install correctly.
The client never used the DVD/CDRW and, of course, it didn't work. Pressing open/close let you hear the motor with no motion. The paperclip released the tray slightly, but there was severe tension. I removed it from the chassis and as soon as I turned it on its side you could hear the rattling inside.
I brought it back to my office, installed another ATAPI DVD drive and a brand new Seagate 250GB Sata drive and tried to install Windows XP (I was going to go for XP Downgrade Rights at my clients request). XP could not complete the graphic install portion with file copy errors. I tried two other DVD drives, one other hard drive and three different sets of OEM Windows XP media: Windows XP Pro, Windows XP Pro w/SP1 and Windows XP Pro w/SP2. Same result. I tried long formats with same results.
For the most part I myself use Intel Boxed motherboards DQ965JO's now, but I've gone back through systems with Intel boards as far back as 845 chipsets and never had these problems loading the basic OS.
Do the Lenovo drivers have to be slipstreamed into the OS?

dwb and shootist007,
I re installed snow leopard and did the following:
signed in to apps/purchases
then my lion OS which i had purchased (button next to it read download) and hit the download button
currently downloading
will see what happens
Shootist007,
You have to have snow leopard to be able to get the app icon and access the app store. If you internet access is slow you should look to getting the thumb drive.
hope this helps
thank you both
Kasique

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