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Old 10-16-2004, 12:28 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Evil Windows xp does not startup

My hard drive is a mess and my mate replaced a file in the windows/system32 folder. It will not start up in safemode, normal, command promt (anything)....

I came up with the plan that i should install windows onto the other hard drive (which is currently empty) so i can replace the one file and not have to format the drive windows is currently installed on it.

I tell the computer to boot from CD ROM and it says something along the lines of: "INVALD SYSTEM OR BOOT DISK" and the windows xp disk is in!

What can i do? i want to be able to re-install windows. The xp i have on the hd will not let me do anything because of this...
My copmuter will not start up...

Please help! i have looke don the net and everythign assumes i can get to a command promt. I can't!
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Old 10-16-2004, 04:45 PM   #2 (permalink)
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You did set the boot sequence to boot from cd.

If not set it and try again.

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