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[Christopher Robin]

Ok, so I DO own a copy of Windows XP, it's just that Staples doesn't give you a serial Just tell you to make a backup of your XP when you buy a pc So I wiped my PC about a month ago, due to some problem or another. I got my cousins XP Home CD, and put in a fake serial. It worked, but told me to activate So today was 1 day left, I tried yet another activation crack, and now my PC is dead. XP, anyways. The logon script goes 0x000000000F or some shit. On a blue screen So I can't change it from my Mac partition, but I AM on a PC, not a mac So anyone wanna tell me if I can reinstall XP with my cousins CD, without losing my files and shizz?

[cx323]

can you try a repair install?

[Dan]

Put in the CD and go into DOS mode... copy the files from DOS from your HDD to another HDD or USBkey or something - should be fine

[Christopher Robin]

Put in the CD and go into DOS mode... copy the files from DOS from your HDD to another HDD or USBkey or something - should be fine

Ok, I go get the CD first, then put it in my PC, and then when it boots, select something along the lines of Boot into DOS mode, but what does copying the files from my HDD do for me? I don't need a backup of XP, I need an install of system files, and no wipe...

Repair install would be on the CD, Right, cx323?

[cx323]

yes. it will keep all your files and overwrite the windows system files

[Greeny]

well you could use ubuntu (linux), and probally get back to xp from there, im not sure.

[Joey]

Cx323 that wouldnt work doing a repair install. It repairs SOME of the files, not the files which state if the PC has been activated and is genuine or not. And also, I did a repair install when I changed some hardware. Of course I had a pirated copy of Windows that was cracked, but it told me when I repair installed that I needed to activate, and I couldnt get into XP.

[Christopher Robin]

Cx323 that wouldnt work doing a repair install. It repairs SOME of the files, not the files which state if the PC has been activated and is genuine or not. And also, I did a repair install when I changed some hardware. Of course I had a pirated copy of Windows that was cracked, but it told me when I repair installed that I needed to activate, and I couldnt get into XP.

Anyways... It's the logon script that fails. I noticed the crack replaced my winlogon.exe file And some other *logon or something...

Edited by Pomroy / Trixx, 29 April 2007 - 04:54 AM.