Not knowing your system nor how the original manufacturer/reseller set it
up - I cannot say with any certainty that you do/do not have a restoration
process that involves no external media of any type.
Not knowing you or your friends/family/co-workers - I cannot say with any
certainty that you do/do not have access to a generic Windows XP CD of the
same version/license type that would accept the product key your machine
came with.
Use / start / help to investigate SYSTEM RESTORE
Its value to your problem depends how this function was
set up earlier, i.e. what dates were used to save the OS.
Other option is to look for an i386 folder on the HD, and burn this to CD. As
it won't be bootable you will also need a bootdisk, you can get one from http://www.bootdisk.com
You run winnt.exe from DOS, or winnt32.exe from Windows/WinPE to launch the
setup.
Other option is to look for an i386 folder on the HD, and burn this to CD.
As
it won't be bootable you will also need a bootdisk, you can get one from http://www.bootdisk.com
You run winnt.exe from DOS, or winnt32.exe from Windows/WinPE to launch
the
setup.
Specifically, you cannot do a repair install on NTFS when booted from DOS.
But, that should be possible when booted from Win/BartPE.
HST, my experience with manufacturer's recovery disks/partitions is that
they have no better than an average success-rate. That, and they may
reinstall all of the junk (e.g. norton) as well as Windows.
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