Re: Major XP problem

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From: Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\) (user_at_#notme.com)
Date: 07/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:02:29 -0700

If your system came with no XP CD, the manufacturer was required to supply
some form of recovery, such as a hidden partition with the setup files.
This usually works with a recovery routine supplied by them. Check your
documentation for such a routine or contact their tech support as we'd have
no way of knowing the routine they supplied for your system and it varies
from one manufacturer to another. 

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Michael Solomon MS-MVP
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"Brody" <captdiver@earthlink.net> wrote in message 
news:197f01c46f68$f86b25b0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Yesterday my computer stopped responding and I shut it
> down. After that, I could not get it to boot. It would
> come up to the XP screen, then make a noise as if it were
> restarting. It would ask me what I wanted it to do. I went
> through all the options, as well as the advanced options,
> and it still wouldn't boot up. I broke down and called
> Tech Support, and they had me do all the things that I had
> already done. Still no luck. The tech told me that my hard
> drive was fried. The error message I kept getting was
> there was a registry failure, and another message said
> STOP: failure at system32\SECURITY. Since my computer came
> with XP Home already installed, I would like to try to
> reinstall. How do I go about replacing the XP disk without
> having to buy one? I'd appreciate any help I can get.

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