Re: Boot disk needed

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Ric Euteneuer wrote:
Go easy on me - a relative newbie here!

Rather stupidly, I obeyed an instruction from an obsolete piece of
Virus scanning software to delete a particular file that appears to
be vital for the functioning of my laptop. It's an Amilo M 7400
Centrino
1.4 combo running Windows XP Home Edition.

When it boots up, I get to the splash screen, but then come to a
screen telling me that the computer did not shut down properly, and
asking me if I want to do a "safe start", "safe start with
networking", or a "normal start". Hitting any of these options
brings me (eventually) back to this screen. I have a kind of Linux
boot disk, which starts the computer but thereafter, I'm clueless,
so I assume that there are no physical problems with the computer,
and that what I have actually done is to delete something vital for
XP to start up.
I am wondering if what I need is a boot disk, that would allow me to
either repair this installation, and how I would go about getting
one. I have also searched high and low for the recovery disk and
cannot locate it. Could I source either of these from the people
who sold me the laptop a couple of years ago ? The recovery disk is
of course the nuclear option, but may be my only choice.

Any help at all would be gratefully received, including perhaps more
appropriate forums to raise this issue.

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341

You will need a Windows XP Home Edition OEM CD - with SP3 integrated would
probably be best. It is not (as you put it so dramatically) a "nuclear
option" - as a repair installa should leave everything intact - just...
repaired. ;-)

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Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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