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I had a 10G drive and I replaced it with a 120G and installed Windows.
Worked fine, but I dowloaded a bad driver and wanted to do a system
restore. Okay, I ran the system restore and went too far so I reversed
the system restore. In the process of reversing an error came up
saying #!$#$!$# some file could not be recovered on C:.. or something.
Anyway, when I tried to reboot it said pci.sys is corrupt or missing
and to run the recovery console.
I tried putting in the Windows setup disk to run recovery console, it
starts to load files fot the setup and then I get the message pci.sys
is corrupted or missing. It will not get far enough to run the
recovery console and I can't run the automatic recovery console because
I never made a recovery console floppy. Press any key.. then it says
set-up failed and restarts my computer. I tried safe mode, it won't
boot, and I tried last working version, did not work.
I put the 10 G back in and ran the 120G as a slave and Formated the
120G using Disk Management. Still got the error when trying to
install. So I again ran it as a slave and copied
Windows/System32/Drivers to the 120G (It works fine as a data storage
slave, just won't run as a system disk). Then I tried to runt he
Windows setup, it got farther but then I got this error:
File pcmcia.sys caused an unexpected error (32768) at line 5882 in
d\xpclient\base\boot\setup\setup.c
I rebooted and got the original pci.sys mesage. So, I again ran it as
slave and copied the Windows/System32 and Windows System folders to the
drive and got the original pci.sys is corrupt or missing message when I
tried to install again. I used the 120G HDD manufacturer website to
write zeros to the 120G and that didn't work. I tried to run the setup
from the 10G master, with the 120G drive as a slave, and install onto
the slave, but I installed SP2 on the 10G master and it says it cannot
run because the version I am installing is older than the version I am
running.
I tried to re-install Windows on the 10G drive from the setup CD on
startup and it gave me the same pci.sys error. So I took out the CD
and it booted windows from the 10G. I tried to install windows onto
the 120G drive from a different PC and got the same error. Any help is
GREATLY appreciated!!
Worked fine, but I dowloaded a bad driver and wanted to do a system
restore. Okay, I ran the system restore and went too far so I reversed
the system restore. In the process of reversing an error came up
saying #!$#$!$# some file could not be recovered on C:.. or something.
Anyway, when I tried to reboot it said pci.sys is corrupt or missing
and to run the recovery console.
I tried putting in the Windows setup disk to run recovery console, it
starts to load files fot the setup and then I get the message pci.sys
is corrupted or missing. It will not get far enough to run the
recovery console and I can't run the automatic recovery console because
I never made a recovery console floppy. Press any key.. then it says
set-up failed and restarts my computer. I tried safe mode, it won't
boot, and I tried last working version, did not work.
I put the 10 G back in and ran the 120G as a slave and Formated the
120G using Disk Management. Still got the error when trying to
install. So I again ran it as a slave and copied
Windows/System32/Drivers to the 120G (It works fine as a data storage
slave, just won't run as a system disk). Then I tried to runt he
Windows setup, it got farther but then I got this error:
File pcmcia.sys caused an unexpected error (32768) at line 5882 in
d\xpclient\base\boot\setup\setup.c
I rebooted and got the original pci.sys mesage. So, I again ran it as
slave and copied the Windows/System32 and Windows System folders to the
drive and got the original pci.sys is corrupt or missing message when I
tried to install again. I used the 120G HDD manufacturer website to
write zeros to the 120G and that didn't work. I tried to run the setup
from the 10G master, with the 120G drive as a slave, and install onto
the slave, but I installed SP2 on the 10G master and it says it cannot
run because the version I am installing is older than the version I am
running.
I tried to re-install Windows on the 10G drive from the setup CD on
startup and it gave me the same pci.sys error. So I took out the CD
and it booted windows from the 10G. I tried to install windows onto
the 120G drive from a different PC and got the same error. Any help is
GREATLY appreciated!!