Chris777isme
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Hey
I run a packard bell desktop on windows xp and recently there was a lightning storm which kindly corrupted a lot of my harddrive.. When I try to boot my sytem it gets to the point where the windows screen appears and the bar goes accross and then restarts.. I have come to the conclusion that it has corrupted the windows part of the disk.. I tried to reinstall windows form the backup portion of the disk but it appears that that it corrupt... but thankfully I made a dvd of it a while ago and after working out how to boot this and run it it asks for the code which i type in, it accepts, It then says "The computer has no valid imformation" and then says "Device error: 7424DOS" and "12Genral failure". it also says that I run oemsetup v4.21. I'm not sure how I can reinstall/repair windows without completly reformating the computer or for that matter what this error means. is it simply a corrupt dvd? if so what other options could I do to reinstall windows and get my computer working again? if someone could give me help with this it would be most appreciated thanks a lot
Chris
I run a packard bell desktop on windows xp and recently there was a lightning storm which kindly corrupted a lot of my harddrive.. When I try to boot my sytem it gets to the point where the windows screen appears and the bar goes accross and then restarts.. I have come to the conclusion that it has corrupted the windows part of the disk.. I tried to reinstall windows form the backup portion of the disk but it appears that that it corrupt... but thankfully I made a dvd of it a while ago and after working out how to boot this and run it it asks for the code which i type in, it accepts, It then says "The computer has no valid imformation" and then says "Device error: 7424DOS" and "12Genral failure". it also says that I run oemsetup v4.21. I'm not sure how I can reinstall/repair windows without completly reformating the computer or for that matter what this error means. is it simply a corrupt dvd? if so what other options could I do to reinstall windows and get my computer working again? if someone could give me help with this it would be most appreciated thanks a lot
Chris