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Try repairing it before you blow it away completely. I usually run repair a couple of times in a row before I let it boot to the OS.
Just select install fresh copy or whatever. It should detect that you have XP already installed and give you the option of repairing it (not through recovery console).
Just select install fresh copy or whatever. It should detect that you have XP already installed and give you the option of repairing it (not through recovery console).
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Unfortunately, it's the only way I can access any of the drives since the OS won't boot. Actually, I did get the OS to boot in Safe Mode once, but as I was installing the new video drivers, XP experienced a fatal error in lsass.exe and forced a shutdown before the drivers finished installing - which makes me believe it is indeed an XP corruption issue.
On the bright side, working in the recovery console brings back memories of the old DOS days.
On the bright side, working in the recovery console brings back memories of the old DOS days.
Instead of going into the Recovery Console go through that section as if you were installing a new copy of XP. When XP detects that there is already a version of itself on the drive it will ask you to:
A) Install over the current version
B) Repair existing installation
C) Exit
Choose Repair by typing R I believe. It has been a long time but I know XP had this feature in the SP1 days.
Good luck....
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Try repairing it before you blow it away completely. I usually run repair a couple of times in a row before I let it boot to the OS.
Just select install fresh copy or whatever. It should detect that you have XP already installed and give you the option of repairing it (not through recovery console).
Just select install fresh copy or whatever. It should detect that you have XP already installed and give you the option of repairing it (not through recovery console).
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This thing is screwed and tattooed. 
Auto repair didn't work.
I tried overwriting the current XP on my C drive with a fresh install. Installation would fail to load certain files and eventually crash. Even the one time I got through the load process, it started popping up dialog boxes with bad or missing dll files and then eventually crashed while trying to complete the last of the setup.
Thinking it might be a bad NTFS on that drive, I switched my drives in the BIOS and tried loading XP onto my second HD which was used for storage. It has failed to install multiple times and even gave me the blue screen of death. The computer at least stays running - not that I can do anything - but just locks up at different points during the installation.
I don't know if it's a mobo or bios issue, but it's definitely not drive or XP related. I even tried a bootleg XP disk I had and it had the same bad luck as my OEM disk.
I'm just going to have to build a new machine and try and copy the data over somehow.
Auto repair didn't work.
I tried overwriting the current XP on my C drive with a fresh install. Installation would fail to load certain files and eventually crash. Even the one time I got through the load process, it started popping up dialog boxes with bad or missing dll files and then eventually crashed while trying to complete the last of the setup.
Thinking it might be a bad NTFS on that drive, I switched my drives in the BIOS and tried loading XP onto my second HD which was used for storage. It has failed to install multiple times and even gave me the blue screen of death. The computer at least stays running - not that I can do anything - but just locks up at different points during the installation.
I don't know if it's a mobo or bios issue, but it's definitely not drive or XP related. I even tried a bootleg XP disk I had and it had the same bad luck as my OEM disk.
I'm just going to have to build a new machine and try and copy the data over somehow.
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This thing is screwed and tattooed.
Auto repair didn't work.
I tried overwriting the current XP on my C drive with a fresh install. Installation would fail to load certain files and eventually crash. Even the one time I got through the load process, it started popping up dialog boxes with bad or missing dll files and then eventually crashed while trying to complete the last of the setup.
Thinking it might be a bad NTFS on that drive, I switched my drives in the BIOS and tried loading XP onto my second HD which was used for storage. It has failed to install multiple times and even gave me the blue screen of death. The computer at least stays running - not that I can do anything - but just locks up at different points during the installation.
I don't know if it's a mobo or bios issue, but it's definitely not drive or XP related. I even tried a bootleg XP disk I had and it had the same bad luck as my OEM disk.
I'm just going to have to build a new machine and try and copy the data over somehow.
Auto repair didn't work.
I tried overwriting the current XP on my C drive with a fresh install. Installation would fail to load certain files and eventually crash. Even the one time I got through the load process, it started popping up dialog boxes with bad or missing dll files and then eventually crashed while trying to complete the last of the setup.
Thinking it might be a bad NTFS on that drive, I switched my drives in the BIOS and tried loading XP onto my second HD which was used for storage. It has failed to install multiple times and even gave me the blue screen of death. The computer at least stays running - not that I can do anything - but just locks up at different points during the installation.
I don't know if it's a mobo or bios issue, but it's definitely not drive or XP related. I even tried a bootleg XP disk I had and it had the same bad luck as my OEM disk.
I'm just going to have to build a new machine and try and copy the data over somehow.
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