Jake
December 10th 03, 11:26 PM
>-----Original Message-----
>My friend is a "snowbird" who lives in Florida (in my
>community) in the winter and Ohio in the Summer. They
>left their Original CD with Windows Xp on it in Ohio and
>they suffered the subject problem. I have read and
>copied all the knowledge base articles which apply and
>could repair the registry if I could get the Recovery
>Module to function. Problem: When I load Windows
>Startup from the 6 floppies I created from a Microsoft
>download, and select "Recovery", the computer does
>some "thinking" and returns with the original error
msg.
>I believe that it goes to a "lookup" file and wants to
>compare the Serial number off the original CD. Since I
>don't have it, I can't get the Recovery Module online.
I
>don't know why it needs the orginal CD to "repair a
>problem". Can anyone provide a solution??????
>.
>
If you can access the below website, look there for a
possible solution to your problem:
Repair XP
http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm
>My friend is a "snowbird" who lives in Florida (in my
>community) in the winter and Ohio in the Summer. They
>left their Original CD with Windows Xp on it in Ohio and
>they suffered the subject problem. I have read and
>copied all the knowledge base articles which apply and
>could repair the registry if I could get the Recovery
>Module to function. Problem: When I load Windows
>Startup from the 6 floppies I created from a Microsoft
>download, and select "Recovery", the computer does
>some "thinking" and returns with the original error
msg.
>I believe that it goes to a "lookup" file and wants to
>compare the Serial number off the original CD. Since I
>don't have it, I can't get the Recovery Module online.
I
>don't know why it needs the orginal CD to "repair a
>problem". Can anyone provide a solution??????
>.
>
If you can access the below website, look there for a
possible solution to your problem:
Repair XP
http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm