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re: File PCMICA.SYS is corrupted Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 4:57 pm Posted by Johnb33 (2283 messages posted) If all you want to do is delete a partition then you can do that through disk management, you don't need to boot to the cd. What exactly are you trying to do? I say you most likely have a bad cd or bad hardware in your system. On Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 4:20 pm, Steve Allain wrote: >I wanted to delete a partition on my hard drive and when I put the XP CD in my opitcal >drive it will start up but after awhile it will come up as PCMICA.SYS is corrupted. >so I hooked up my other drive that has XP on it and it gave the same error PCMICA.SYS >is corrupted.do I have a bad XP CD or is there something wrong with my drives? can >someone please help me. thank you [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: File PCMICA.SYS is corrupted Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 5:21 pm Posted by normanw (1284 messages posted) I presume you mean pcmcia.sys. This is a PCI card driver. You may be able to retrieve a replacement from Microsoft but first check the original has not been altered by malwafre. There are many references on Google so you may well find the solution there. ‘There’s always tomorrow. At least, there always has been, so far.’ – Keith Waterhouse On Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 4:20 pm, Steve Allain wrote: >I wanted to delete a partition on my hard drive and when I put the XP CD in my opitcal >drive it will start up but after awhile it will come up as PCMICA.SYS is corrupted. >so I hooked up my other drive that has XP on it and it gave the same error PCMICA.SYS >is corrupted.do I have a bad XP CD or is there something wrong with my drives? can >someone please help me. thank you [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum