Re: Dual Boot (Nigel Wade)

[Nigel Wade <nmw ion le ac uk>]

eric s riley us army mil wrote:
> Well-
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> > I take this is 2k or XP? 
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> XP
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> > I think this means your registry is fubar, or at least Windows can't
> > read it. It does require a repair disk to fix it, or a complete re
> > -install. I've had to do this once and it's not nice.
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> Blast and damn- I was afraid of that...
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> > Didn't your system come with any CD's? I'd have thought it would 
> > at least have had a repair CD.
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> Well- it does, but I can't get the repair CD to do anything- I (more 
> the fool me) did not use the repair CD to back up, thinking that, since 
> I had just gotten the computer, I could easily return it to the factory 
> settings with the repair CD...  Unfortunately, for that option, ther 
> repair CD says that I need the 'QRCD's' to repair the system.  What are 
> those?!  I will try calling the place I got the computer from- perhaps 
> they have the CD's there...
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> cheers-
>      Eric


Sorry, don't know what that means either. Normally in XP, repair mode 
gives you a text mode repair console which allows you minimal access to 
the XP partition in order to carry out basic repairs.

There are instructions on the MS KnowlegeBase Web site for fixing the 
registry from the repair console.


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