Re: Help, XP ate my pc!!!

From: Shenan Stanley (news_helper_at_hushmail.com)
Date: 03/12/04

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    Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:21:03 -0600

    Jen wrote:
    > uggggggg ok, this morning i got XP to install on my
    > machine..since it wasn't running right and needed a clean
    > install of something, i decided on XP upgrade cd with
    > clean install option.
    >
    > I clean installed, but it didn't. All my files were there,
    > just not working. So after talking with CS in the live
    > chat from inside XP option, they gave me a link to
    > download a XP start up disk program, to make a set of
    > start up disks to use, since my pc was not booting from cd
    > rom. I downloaded the program, made the 6 disks, and
    > popped them bad boys in, rebooted...and my troubles began.
    >
    > half way through the first run, the ps gave an error that
    > there was something missing on one of the disks..so i
    > exited out, went back into windows, and made the disks
    > again..all 6 of em. Back out into DOS, booted from floppy,
    > reformatted hard drive to NTFS system as instrusted, and
    > popped in my win 98 cd to verify i had wondows beofre, and
    > moved on.
    >
    > THEN i get this error. AFTER the hard drive has been
    > converted and formatted (wiped out completely of
    > EVERYTHING) the error said. and i quote
    > "the following value in .SIF file used by setup is
    > corrupted or missing. Value 0 on the line
    > [SourceDisksFiles] Setup cannot continue. To exit setup
    > press F3"
    >
    > After a reboot, i get this message "NTLDR is mising" and
    > an a: prompt.
    >
    > My pc is fried....there's nothing on it but DOS....DOS
    > isn't seeing the cdroms... and my floppy's are corrupted.
    >
    > I've gone into DOS, reformatted the harddrive to a DOS
    > partition, deleting the NTFS partition hoping to at least
    > put 98 back on, but i can't get past the DOS prompt.
    >
    > Someone pleaseeeeee tell me my pc isn't fried???

    Oh..

    And take out any Floppy Disks in the drives during this entire process. 

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