The Reverend XP
December 5th 03, 01:19 AM
Ignore the post about using System Restore. That comes
from someone who obviously doesn't know how unreliable and
useless it really is. As for your issue. Two things. First
you can reinstall XP as many times as you like. There is
no penalty for doing so and no limits to the number of
times you can reactivate your XP on the same machine.
Secondly this is a drastic measure when there is a simpler
way of repairing your XP install. Once you have booted
onto the desktop click start and then click run and type
in sfc /scannow Be sure to put the space after sfc
and before the / This will scan for missing or corrupt
MS OS files and replace them with the originals off your
disk. Either have your disk handy and put it in your drive
when prompted or have it in the drive waiting and then
type the command. This is a System File Check and I
suggest you write this down for future reference. Good
luck.
from someone who obviously doesn't know how unreliable and
useless it really is. As for your issue. Two things. First
you can reinstall XP as many times as you like. There is
no penalty for doing so and no limits to the number of
times you can reactivate your XP on the same machine.
Secondly this is a drastic measure when there is a simpler
way of repairing your XP install. Once you have booted
onto the desktop click start and then click run and type
in sfc /scannow Be sure to put the space after sfc
and before the / This will scan for missing or corrupt
MS OS files and replace them with the originals off your
disk. Either have your disk handy and put it in your drive
when prompted or have it in the drive waiting and then
type the command. This is a System File Check and I
suggest you write this down for future reference. Good
luck.