repairing windows xp pro

From: Bryan Fox (foxb11_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 08/06/04


Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 14:23:54 -0700

FWIW, last night I was running into similar errors trying
to fix XP, where I was in this seemingly endless loop of
the system crashing during the install and then starting
over at the beginning. Eventually however, after about 6
or 8 times, it made it through the install (it gave up
declaring the error?). XP still has issues, and I will
probably have to do a clean install, but it does work now
reasonably well, well enough that I can get off of the
hard drive what I need before wiping it all out.

Good luck.
Bryan

>-----Original Message-----
>i have windows xp pro installed on my computer, it
>recently stopped working right. programs take in excess
>of 5 mins to load while system idle process is taking 95%
>of my processing power, i have plenty of memory, a 2ghz
>processor, plenty of harddrive space. also, notepad no
>longer works.
>i had a virus before so im thinking it may have corrupted
>some important files. i went to repair windows with the
>cd, it gets down to about 13 mins left when it says that
>some entry point doesnt exist so it cant continue. when i
>restart it goes back into the repair so i now have no way
>of getting to my desktop so i can save my files on
>another HD so that i can reformat. i tried to send
>microsoft an email but they want my product id, i ask
>them how to get it and they tell me to go into control
>panel, which would be useful if windows would start. so
>im curious what im supposed to do now. i cant get to my
>files, i cant repair windows, i cant choose to NOT repair
>windows and i cant contact microsoft because they dont
>believe in supporting their customers and i dont have 35
>bucks to waste on their paid support. any suggestions?
>.
>



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