Re: Win XP PRO disc corrupt

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From: Carey Frisch [MVP] (cnfrisch_at_nospamgmail.com)
Date: 02/01/05 

Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 13:37:54 -0600

How to replace lost, broken, or missing Microsoft software or hardware
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[ln];326246 

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 "LIPurplegirl" wrote:
| I had previously installed Win xp Pro on my kids computer.  There computer 
| has been really funky so I did a complete reformat on the hard disc.  When I 
| went to reinstall Win XP Pro it keeps saying the disc is corrupt and the only 
| choice I get it to restart the computer and it goes around and around again 
| to the same corrupt disc message.  If I do manage to get it to the point of 
| "hit r for repair" I get the blue screen of death and have to reboot.  I have 
| a valid legal key code that I can use, but no usable XP Pro disc.  What, if 
| anything, can I do now?  Can I purchase a disc with no keycode from 
| microsoft? or is there any way to download the software that I can use my key 
| code with?  This is the only computer running this software and it is not a 
| bootleg copy.  I have windows XP Home on my computer and havent had this 
| problem.  I ran the windows xp home on the computer hoping that the corrupt 
| xp pro file would be on the home disc and then I could just use the xp pro 
| disc to do an upgrade and use the xp pro keycode but that didnt work either.  
| As soon as the xp pro disc goes in it is corrupt and the loop starts again.  
| Please help.

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