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re: Win XP Startup
Monday, January 14, 2002 at 6:49 pm
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Posted by Beecher Wood (952 messages posted)


You will go through the motions of installing XP, but the installer will detect the old install and ask if you want to repair it. I think you hit R at that point, and the installer should fix your problems. All data and programs should be intact. Good Luck.


On Wednesday, November 21, 2001 at 12:50 pm, Derek wrote:
>When I turn on my computer, before it goes to any windows startup screen, I get a
>message saying that one of my files is corrupted and to press "r" to start the recovery.
> However, when I press "r" it just restarts the computer and the same thing happens.
> What should I do? If I need some sort of recovery disk where can I get it becuase
>that is the only compute rI know of that has XP? Thanks


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Win XP Startup (Derek: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 at 12:50 pm)

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-Win XP Startup (Derek: Wed, Nov 21, 2001, 12:50 pm)
*re: Win XP Startup (bernie: Wed, Nov 21, 2001, 3:00 pm)
*re: Win XP Startup (Beecher Wood: Mon, Jan 14, 2002, 6:49 pm)
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