repair install

[Dennis Roark]

I have a well-running, heavily customized and configured Win XP home.
But I am planning on changing motherboards and want to perform a repair
install in order to change the configuration to the new motherboard.
Because how heavily configured it is, I don't want to start from scratch
with a full install. I've used the repair install on other pc's and it
does the job. But my home version is not permitting the repair install.
Part way through the process the install stops and gives the following
error messages. I need some help to find a way around this fatal error.
(I have a fully licensed copy of XP home, with the original disks. It
was previously authenticated and registered by me. It is completely
legal, depsite this inscrutable message when the install stops:
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Warning:
Setup failed to remove product catalog IEEXCEP.CAT

Warning:
Setup failed to remove product catalog SP1.CAT

Error:
The signature for Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade is invalid.
The error code is fffffdd9

The system cannot find message text for number 0xfffffdd9
in the message file for syssetup.dll

Fatal Error:
Setup failed to install the product catalogs. This is a fatal
error.
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This is dual boot system, Win 98 and XP with XP on drive D: I have
tried various ways around this error, doing the repair install by
beginning in Win98; booting from the Win XP Home CD; running winnt.exe
after booting first to DOS. Nothing works, I keep hitting this error.
Can someone help, please?



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Dennis Roark

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[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP-Windows Shell/User\)]

When you run the repair install, running booting from the XP Home CD, is
there an option to select which system to repair and are you sure you are
selecting the correct OS, XP as opposed to Win98?

 

[Dennis Roark]

[posted and mailed]

Restart the install. During installing before it gets to the error
message press Shift and F10 at the same time.
This should bring up a command prompt. At the prompt type "cd
catroot2" (without quotes of course) and then press Enter Key.
Next type "del *.*" (once again no quotes) and hit Enter.
Confirm that you want to delete. Then type EXIT to leave the command
prompt. You may have to restart setup
again if the error message comes up before your finished.

see this
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q307153

Thank you, Harry. But do you think this is really the error: The MS
support document you referred me to regards upgrading a win version. I
am not upgrading win 98 but want (and have) a dual boot system. At the
start of the repair install, if I run it from inside win98, I elect not
to upgrade but "new installation." Then I later pass up the 'R' to
repair with the recover console and after my installations have been
found, select 'R' to repair the previous Win XP Home installation. My
error code is a little different as well. The reference refers to error
code 0xfffffdf0, mine is 0xfffffdd9.

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Dennis Roark

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