[texhax] Problems with installation

[Bob Tennent]

 >|I have an old computer (vintage 2004) running Win-XP,  It has Miktex 2.7
 >|on it and, in order to free up disk space, I decided to install the latest
 >|version I have on its second disk drive (and then uninstall the 2.7).  It
 >|turns out that the te live 2013 DVD is unreadable because the drive
 >|reads only CDs.  So I decided to use the Tug installation.  I went to Tug,
 >|downloaded install-tl.zip, unzipped it and then ran install-tl-windows as
 >|prescribed by tug.  Here are the error messages I got:
 >|
 >|[e:\downloads]install-tl-windows
 >|PATH=E:\downloads\tlpkg\tlperl\bin;c:\util;C:\TeXLive2007\bin\win32;C:\TeXLive2007
 >|\dviout;C:\gs\gs8.54\bin;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem;C:\4nt;
 >|C:\util;C:\program files\keditw;C:\Program Files\SSH Communications
 >|Security\SSH S
 >|ecure Shell
 >|"E:\downloads\install-tl"
 >|Can't locate warnings/register.pm in @INC (you may need to install the
 >|warnings::r
 >|egister module) (@INC contains: E:/downloads/tlpkg
 >|E:\downloads\tlpkg\tlperl\lib .
 >|) at vars.pm line 7.
 >|BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at vars.pm line 7.
 >|Compilation failed in require at Cwd.pm line 172.
 >|BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Cwd.pm line 172.
 >|Compilation failed in require at E:\downloads\install-tl line 45.
 >|BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at E:\downloads\install-tl line 45.
 >|Press any key when ready...
 >|
 >|Any idea what went wrong?

You seem to have an old version of TeXLive still installed:  
C:\TeXLive2007\bin\win32

Perhaps you should at least remove that from your PATH.

Also, have you considered installing MiKTeX-2.9?  

Bob T.