I also have the Compaq Presario V2000

I just did a HD swap and the live CD worked well. Other than some slightly out dated tools it booted without an issue.

One thing I had an isue with was the touch pad and options for it. I got the mouse controls worked out but the pad is silly sensitive, w/ default to 1 click

I was amased that it picked up all the bits in the computer rather well, along with a USB to IDE/SATA adapter

Try a slow brun on the disk image, and try a differnt media.

-Robert