i posted a thread about my dell laptop, p-3 . model 8000, with windows 2000 pro. decided to put xp for the looks in it. ral the program, half way it s,,,topped and said cannot go on sys/32 confg/ missing or corrupted. so i tried again, and again. no luck. i took out the disk re booted and it wouldnt get to the black screen it read, cmdide.sys is missing or corrupt. and push ant key to restart. onver and over! so i put the disk in again tried the set up, got to repair consule ran a dskchk allgood ran a dskchk /p and /r same thing, tried to log on from there, asked for a password. i dont have one.after three tries ,restart! i have a password reset utility i bought[thay work great] after resetting it, still wont let me in. so i called a pro, he said id have to back up all info on a differnt drive and redo it all for 225.00, is that too much seems like it . anybody have any ideas? :p
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Jump to PostThe errors you were getting were probably due to the quality of your install disk or cdrom, it should give you the option to retry whenever it cant find a file when installing a recent OS. You should always try to retry, if it doesnt work after the 2nd time, …
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