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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:10:08 +0100

Kitty,
Restart your computer, then when it shows the first initial
screen or logo,
hit the 'delete' key on the keyboard (or 'F10' if it's a
Compaq or similar).
You should then find yourself looking at the BIOS options
screen.
Look for ''boot options' or similar, and set the first
device to boot from CD Rom (or similar)

Press the 'esc' key, then the 'F10' key to 'exit and save
changes'.

Restart your computer with the Windows XP CD in the drive,
and follow the steps
for a clean reinstall:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

or you might want to try a repair install instead:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

DO NOT reconnect to the internet again without activating
either the built in firewall
(open 'help and support' type in 'firewall') or whatever 3rd
party one you use.

Immediately go to the windows update site and install ALL
critical updates.

Don't forget you will need to reactivate Windows XP if you
choose a complete reinstall.

Hope this helps a bit more,
Chek

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"Kitty" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> I used Partition Magic 8.0.  I could not get my XP CD to
> work.  My computer had been worked over pretty good.
> My Norton was turned off and Zone alarm had been changed
> too.  Files were missing (I deleted nothing).  My last
> resort was Partition Magic as I could not do anything
> with my CD.  I guess I will not be able to fix myself???
> >-----Original Message-----
> >anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com wrote:
> >
> >> Thank you for responding.  I had a problem that would
> not
> >> go away.  So, I was told the only was to completely
> clean
> >> the drive was to repartition it.  Which everything went
> >> find until I was told to put in the second boot disk??
> >> The second disk said "media error" and gave me an A:>
> >> prompt.  I have not been able to get the second disk to
> >> work.  Joan
> >
> >You need to be booting with the XP cd, not the floppies.
> Set your
> >computer to boot from the cd (in the BIOS) if it is not
> already set
> >that way, boot from the XP cd and proceed with the
> Repair Install.
> >
> >Malke
> >-- 
> >MS MVP - Windows Shell/User
> >Elephant Boy Computers
> >www.elephantboycomputers.com
> >"Don't Panic!"
> >.
> >

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