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Thursday, October 31, 2002 at 10:02 am
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Posted by Bob Hohmann (91 messages posted)


Hey Nathan, being that you just re-formatted, don't think that this is an OS issue - have you upgraded your Ram recently?? If so, you might want to take some of your Ram out and see how setup runs...Good Luck..Bob


On Thursday, October 31, 2002 at 9:00 am, Nathan wrote:
>I have been receiving an intermittent error at start-up for Windows XP. The error
>is as follows. "Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing
>or corrupt: \windows\system32\drivers\fastfat.sys"
>
>If I just push reset it will reboot and go into windows fine. I have tried to repair
>the file but have had not luck.
>
>I just re-formatted my Hard drive last night, this time I used the NTFS format and
>on my first boot up I got the exact same error, only it referred to the NTFS.sys
>file. I haven't even put any other software on it yet.
>
>Any help or suggestions would be appreciated
>
>Thanks,
>Nathan
>
>


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Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (Nathan: Thursday, October 31, 2002 at 9:00 am)

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*re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (Wrangler: Monday, December 2, 2002 at 2:43 pm)
*re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (Eric Stanaway: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 at 7:10 am)

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-re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (Nathan: Thu, Oct 31, 2002, 10:09 am)
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*re: Question about 'What to do about error messages during Windows startup' (Eric Stanaway: Wed, Dec 11, 2002, 7:10 am)
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