RE: XP won't boot - missing files - questions about XP disk - thanks

From: fisherman (fisherman_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:39:03 -0800

if your original xp disk is "SP1".. u cannot run a repair on your OS as
windows sees it as an older version...find some1 who has A "winxp SP2" disk
and u can boot from that and at the start up screen ..click "repair windows
xp "...it will repair your OS files and save all other files..i've had to do
it a few times lol..

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