SeriouslyRobert
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So I was installing XP off an old disk of mine for a friend and there were a few scratches and it caused some dlls to go corrupt. It got to the starting windows phase and blue screened.
I made a bootable disk with a different bootable ISO that I downloaded from a forum. The cd reader wouldn't even read it. So I'm thinking one of the corrupt dlls affected the cd drive. I then used rufus to create a bootable usb with that same ISO and tried another also. It booted, went through the loading then did the same thing as the disk... went to blue screen when it got to the starting windows part.
Please help. I would just install windows 7 if the computer would handle it. He's an old guy and likes the XP and the computer is maxed with 1gb ram.
Any ideas would help. Is there any way to boot from the backup image on the hdd? I looked through the BIOS and didn't see anything. Thanks in advance.
I made a bootable disk with a different bootable ISO that I downloaded from a forum. The cd reader wouldn't even read it. So I'm thinking one of the corrupt dlls affected the cd drive. I then used rufus to create a bootable usb with that same ISO and tried another also. It booted, went through the loading then did the same thing as the disk... went to blue screen when it got to the starting windows part.
Please help. I would just install windows 7 if the computer would handle it. He's an old guy and likes the XP and the computer is maxed with 1gb ram.
Any ideas would help. Is there any way to boot from the backup image on the hdd? I looked through the BIOS and didn't see anything. Thanks in advance.