Re: I hope I'm still able to install XP

From: JAX (slipslide_at_pop.not)
Date: 07/17/04 

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 22:09:03 -0700

Your XP CD has all the tools you need to install. Set your BIOS to 1st boot
from CD. Disconnect everything from you computer except the mouse, keyboard,
and monitor. Then follow the instructions from the following link for a
clean install of XP.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
Thanks to Michael Stevens

HTH, JAX

"mic" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2ddea01c46bb7$a9397a00$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I'm building my own PC, after I got all the hardware
> together, I installed XP. It seemed to take a long time.
> I realized that I didn't install the Seagate driver for
> the hard drive, so I went into Bios and had the PC boot
> from the CD drive and installed and reformatted the hard
> drive. Now I can't reinstall XP. I get this error
> message, "RegOpenKeyEx(SYSTEM\Setup\Pid)returned error2
> (2)." Perhaps I was supposed to use the Seagate CD in
> windows? I think I'm screwed. Please advise, anyone?

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