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Yesterday when I went to turn my PC on it acted a bit funny.
Everything was fine to start off with but then...
I've got XP-Pro and when I clicked on my account to log in the screen went black! After a while a message came up saying it couldn't find Windows, so I wacked my Windows CD in to innstall it again but it wont accept it.
I changed the hard disk but with the result.
I can't remember the exact words of the message but it told me that one of the files on the CDwas destroyed?
I thought that CD was ment for use several times if anything like this happened. I've used the CD once when I innstalled XP.
Can someone tell me what is going on here?
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Posted: 2003-08-20 10:35:25
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i dont have a clue but my sympathies for you and your dead computer...
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Posted: 2003-08-20 10:38:34
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Ok first thing the to do is to reboot and as soon as the pc looks like its starting (you see bios info or the company name of your pc etc) keep pressing F8 until you get a boot menu.
Here there are two choices useful to you.
First try the "Last known good configuration" and see if that works for you.
If not then try safe mode and do a system restore to a date, presumably yesterday or prior, that you know the system was working perfectly.
System restore has fixed me up a few times!
btw. you can use your windows CDs as many times as you like so don't worry about that and since you cannot write on the windows CDs the files cannot possibly be destroyed.
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[ This Message was edited by: masseur on 2003-08-20 10:06 ]
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Posted: 2003-08-20 10:48:18
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Great, thanks mate.
I'll print this off and give it a go tonight.
(Stupid machines...
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Posted: 2003-08-20 11:04:50
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maybe ur CD is scratched?
also dont register with microsoft with the same key too many times
it wont let u
worst comes to worst
use the key everyone uses.. but DONT REGISTER
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Posted: 2003-08-20 11:54:13
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If the cd was scratched the pc would report an error reading the disc, not that a file is corrupted.
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[ This Message was edited by: masseur on 2003-08-20 11:05 ]
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Posted: 2003-08-20 12:05:13
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On 2003-08-20 11:54:13, fijbert wrote:
also dont register with microsoft with the same key too many times
it wont let u
worst comes to worst
use the key everyone uses.. but DONT REGISTER
Eh...? What key is that?
Btw, I never register anywhere...
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Posted: 2003-08-20 12:08:33
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@masseur
not true
I've suffered the "file is corrupt" or "file is missing" from Windows installation CDs before
and then I looked at the CD and it was scratched very slightly
also, another time, I encountered that problem, took out the CD, cleaned it a bit and it was just cuz that area of the CD was stained
and the CD worked fine afterwards
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Posted: 2003-08-20 12:10:54
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Well I don't understand that since a cyclic redundancy check is performed on read so it would fail to read rather than read incorrect data. I'm not a complete expert on this so won't argue with what you say.
regarding the windows xp activation, you can activate it as many times as you like as long as you do not change the configuration of the pc substantially.
Here is the microsft page describing all this.
In my experience even if you do change the configuration substantially it may not let you activate automatically but a simple phone call to microsoft can resolve that issue.
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Posted: 2003-08-20 12:21:14
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So... how did you go last night with this problem?
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Posted: 2003-08-21 08:48:10
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