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re: atapi.sys issue
Monday, May 11, 2009 at 4:34 pm
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Posted by Ricer46 (23824 messages posted)


It could be worse, the drive controller could be shot.






On Monday, May 11, 2009 at 11:19 am, Christian E wrote:
>Well, i suppose the HD isn´t ok because of the unmountable boot drive issue, but
>should that affect atapi.sys - isnt it on the cd, how can it be corrupt if there
>is a HD error? The computer can read from both HD and CD, and I need to get to the
>recovery console to fix the HD boot which as I understand it should be doable. But
>am I understanding it correctly that a HD error can make it so that the XP cd cannot
>even install atapi.sys correctly? Kinda catch 22 if I cannot boot from CD to fix
>the HD because the HD is messed up... :(



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re: atapi.sys issue (Christian E: Monday, May 11, 2009 at 11:19 am)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-atapi.sys issue (Christian E: Mon, May 11, 2009, 10:30 am)
-re: atapi.sys issue (Romasurus !!!: Mon, May 11, 2009, 11:13 am)
-re: atapi.sys issue (Christian E: Mon, May 11, 2009, 11:19 am)
*re: atapi.sys issue (Ricer46: Mon, May 11, 2009, 4:34 pm)
-re: atapi.sys issue (Jacob6601: Mon, May 11, 2009, 8:27 pm)
-re: atapi.sys issue (Christian E: Tue, May 12, 2009, 1:45 am)
*re: atapi.sys issue (Jacob6601: Wed, May 13, 2009, 8:45 am)
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