HELP PLEAZZZZ !

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You may have to accept the fact that this may not be fixable.

Are you able to borrow a friends xp disc to try this?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545

Does the computer have a secret manufacturers restore area?

Are you able to save all your documents to a flash drive?

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You may have to accept the fact that this may not be fixable.

Are you able to borrow a friends xp disc to try this?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545

Does the computer have a secret manufacturers restore area?

Are you able to save all your documents to a flash drive?

I'm not alaready give up,Hazel .Keep searching and googling.Wish me luck ;)

What difference between Recov Console Pro and Home edition ? I just called my friend to borrow it

No

Yes

Thanks ,All of you.

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I don't know if there is a difference in the recovery consol of the two versions

I think you will soon find out :)

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Follow this Bleeping Computer Recovery Console guide to install it. Note that if you install it while your computer is running it will actually download a newer version and install it instead. I have no ideal though if using an XP install CD from someone else to install it will work or not, but worth a try.

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I found something that might tell you if you have a copy of your XP cd files on your pc.

Go to this registry key: (regedit.exe)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup

Take a look at the SourcePath data column.

Chances are that the key might be pointing to the cdrom drive. :(

But if it is still somewhere around we can work with it.

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I found something that might tell you if you have a copy of your XP cd files on your pc.

Go to this registry key: (regedit.exe)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup

Take a look at the SourcePath data column.

Chances are that the key might be pointing to the cdrom drive. :(

But if it is still somewhere around we can work with it.

yes ,there is

sourcePath REG_SZ I:\

what should I do ?

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Which drive is I:\ ?

What's in it?

If you got nothing there then there's nothing we can do. :(

Anyways, have you tried chkdsk /F ?

Fixes weird stuff sometimes.

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Which drive is I:\ ?

What's in it?

If you got nothing there then there's nothing we can do. :(

Anyways, have you tried chkdsk /F ?

Fixes weird stuff sometimes.

I: is USB flash drive

cannot run chkdsk !

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Have you tried one of these ?

http://www.askvg.com/download-free-bootabl...ure-and-others/

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cannot run chkdsk !

You can if you use that BartPE Boot disc I've mentioned. Using the BartPE Boot disc also allows the usage of programs already on your computer such as chkdsk, etc.

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I got another idea:

Does the msconfig command works?

If it does, (in the general tab) try using the "Normal Startup" and the "Diagnostic Startup".

I hope it works.

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I gave up ;) ,complicated procedure and decided to reinstall and roll back SP2

Thank for your all advices posted to this thread. :)

Sorry if I made this thread too long.

thanks again

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Sorry to hear that you had to give in, although I know you tried very, very hard. :)

When you get all set up again it may be time for you to look at ways of having image backups etc.

Let us know that everything goes ok.

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Sorry to hear that you had to give in, although I know you tried very, very hard. :)

When you get all set up again it may be time for you to look at ways of having image backups etc.

Let us know that everything goes ok.

So far all programs running fine.

already backup with ERUNT