Re: Software needed

From: wojo (kwoyach53954_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/20/04 

Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 06:22:37 GMT

Where the @#%# did you buy this computer from???
If it's a legitimate company they have to atleast give you an OEM disk or it
has to be on a partition (Like HP does) to tell you to use a friends is
about as shady as you can get and probably illegal!
Push them harder, threaten to call MS or the better business bureau or
something to that effect because there is something strange going on here.
Anyone disagree?

"Dmac" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4D0EBC26-F7BE-47F1-87C7-8A3FF7F19A57@microsoft.com...
> When I bought mu computer I was given a liscence and product key to use XP
> Pro. My system has crashed twice since I bought my computer last month.
> The first time i was told a virus corrupted the boot sector and I had to
> get the software re-loaded, Luckily no charge. I put Norton 2004 on right
> after that. Now, all of a sudden I get the message " windows could not
> start because the config32\system file is corupt or missing. To make a
> long story short, the place I bought my computer won't give me a copy of
> xp pro to reboot my computer with. They say that I can use a friends copy
> to load it and use my product key to activate it. So what are my
> options? Pay to have them re-install it or get a copy from a friend? And
> what could have caused this? Another virus? I had my old computer for 4
> years and I never once got a virus and I never used virus protection.

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