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window xp installation
Name: far Date: March 9, 2005 at 17:21:15 Pacific OS: xp CPU/Ram: p4 1.6
Comment:
For some reason i can not install windos xp in my computer.
I had installed windows xp in this computer and was working with out any error,bymistake i formate hard drive.Now i can not install xp anymore. It will satrt installation byt after a while this error mentioned above.
All of my hardware seems to be working fine . no clue about this error. please help. thanks
Name: grasshopper Date: March 9, 2005 at 17:32:39 Pacific
Reply:
I don't have a clue as to how you can accidently format a hard drive. There must be more to it than you're saying. What you need to do now is really format the HDD and start from scratch installing XP.
When all is said and done More is said than done..
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Response Number 2
Name: Valerie (by Garibaldi) Date: March 9, 2005 at 18:49:10 Pacific
Reply:
See here: http://www.jsifaq.com/SUBK/tip5200/rh5224.htm
Google for stop 0x000000c2 threw up lotsa info
Yeah, looks like a format & re-install but as you know you will lose all files on C:
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Response Number 3
Name: Rocempire Date: March 10, 2005 at 00:14:24 Pacific
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You can still save all your C files. When you try to load xp during the set up you can create a new partition and xp will clear that part of you hard drive and then load the OS on the newly created and clean partition. you should be able to boot with the new OS and still recover C drive on the renamed partition.
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