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Matt
I have a Compaq computer with XP installed. It crashed the other night
and now when you boot up the system it goes strait to the "Windows was
not properly shut down... possibly due to a hardware failure or software
error... bla, bla bla" and no matter which option you choose (Safe
Mode, Safe Mode DOS, Last known Hardware setup, restart...) all it will
do is show the Windows splash screen (and I've tried hitting F8 here
with no results)for a couple of seconds and then reboot back to the
"Windows did not properly shut down" screen.
So the Compaq tech support agent told me that I would need to download
and create Windows XP setup disks from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=33290 . Now
comes my major problem... with a new set of formatted floppy disks, on
three different computers I've tried to run this utility to make XP
setup disks and it never seems to work. The first time I got an error
message on disk 3 (unable to read file) the second time (with 6 new
disks) I got an error message on disk 5 (unable to read file) and the
third time (with 6 new disks) I got an error message on disk 4. So on
the off chance that I got a bad batch of floppies, I took all the disks
that definitely did work and reformatted them and tried again and got an
error message on the first disk.
Is this program just bad? And if so is there something else I can try?
and now when you boot up the system it goes strait to the "Windows was
not properly shut down... possibly due to a hardware failure or software
error... bla, bla bla" and no matter which option you choose (Safe
Mode, Safe Mode DOS, Last known Hardware setup, restart...) all it will
do is show the Windows splash screen (and I've tried hitting F8 here
with no results)for a couple of seconds and then reboot back to the
"Windows did not properly shut down" screen.
So the Compaq tech support agent told me that I would need to download
and create Windows XP setup disks from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=33290 . Now
comes my major problem... with a new set of formatted floppy disks, on
three different computers I've tried to run this utility to make XP
setup disks and it never seems to work. The first time I got an error
message on disk 3 (unable to read file) the second time (with 6 new
disks) I got an error message on disk 5 (unable to read file) and the
third time (with 6 new disks) I got an error message on disk 4. So on
the off chance that I got a bad batch of floppies, I took all the disks
that definitely did work and reformatted them and tried again and got an
error message on the first disk.
Is this program just bad? And if so is there something else I can try?