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hi there,
there was a short circuit or something, the laptop's
motherboard is dead, the HD still working, thanx god!
so I updated my desktop running Win98 to XP Home office in
order to access and save data on the laptop's HD.
XP set up converted the partition to NTFS, set up winXP,
finished successfully and I started the computer
absolutely normally. Then I went on to update WinXP from
the website, but was told that I cannot do that at that
moment??? Probably because I did not registered XP???
Then I had to restart the computer for some reason and it
did not boot at all. Black screen came up, I was not able
to F8 and start in Safe mode. A message came Ntldr file is
missing or corrupt?
I tried to boot using XP boot disketts, but I got message:
- value in .sif used by setup corrupt or missing
- value 0 on the line in section source disk files with
key sp1.cab
- ntldr is missing
these are the events in sequence, if I can not boot, is it
possible to reinstall XP Home edition, or to Format the
partition and start from scratch, but how do I format a
partion when I can not boot???
Thanks for your help,
Boyko
>-----Original Message-----
>Boyko Grigorov wrote:
>> My laptop burned off and I upgraded my desktop from
Win98
>> to XP in order to read data on the laptop HD, which is
>> NTFS.
>> After installing XP it ran OK for a while, then I when
to
>> Windows Update do update with latest security patches,
but
>> I got a message that I can do that. Then I restarted the
>> computer and the screen went black, all options for safe
>> mode etc. were unaccessible, the computer simply refused
>> to start up. I change the sequence to start from CD rom,
>> but to no avail? Any suggestion how to reload XP or may
be
>> repair it?
>>
>> Thanks
>
>I could comment on this, but I am not sure how to. If
English is not your
>first language, check the MS newsgroups for one in your
language.
>You need to re-post your questions [with some detailed
information and some
>spell checking would also help] on how you installed,
also what does "burned
>off " mean? What version of XP did you install? What
patches did you apply?
>Any information helps us help you.
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>Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP
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