Reboot in MS-Dos and try drive c: gives Invalid Drive Specification

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So I've been having trouble with this laptop of mine for a week now. I opened it up to fix the touch pad. Carefully replaced everything and started it up and it give me the "we apologize for the inconvience....restart in safe mode...last known setting...windows normally" I've tried all of these with no luck. When starting windows normally or last known setting it goes to the windows logo screen...waits there a while and then the screen flickers and then goes black the hard disk LED which is lit through this, turns off but I hear something coming from that general area as if the laptop is still on. When I try loading in safe mode, a bunch of drivers scroll down the screen and then the same thing...flickers and screen goes black. Nothing brings any picture back. I tried reinstalling xp home ed with the 6 boot disks (SP1) but on the third disk it gives me error msg 4099...setupreg.hiv could not be found. So I tried an MS-DOS boot up and it of course gives me the a:\> prompt. When I type C:, it say invalid drive specification. I'm at a loss here, I was really hoping not to give it to a professional rip-off who charges $XX/hr as I'm a poor man. Is there a way to fix my computer's state? I NEED to get these files that are trapped in my computer for a research project that I'm working on. Help is desperately needed...Thank you for your time
 
How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade (Reinstallation) of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

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| So I've been having trouble with this laptop of mine for a week now. I opened it up to fix the touch pad.
Carefully replaced everything and started it up and it give me the "we apologize for the
inconvience....restart in safe mode...last known setting...windows normally" I've tried all of these with no
luck. When starting windows normally or last known setting it goes to the windows logo screen...waits there a
while and then the screen flickers and then goes black the hard disk LED which is lit through this, turns off
but I hear something coming from that general area as if the laptop is still on. When I try loading in safe
mode, a bunch of drivers scroll down the screen and then the same thing...flickers and screen goes black.
Nothing brings any picture back. I tried reinstalling xp home ed with the 6 boot disks (SP1) but on the third
disk it gives me error msg 4099...setupreg.hiv could not be found. So I tried an MS-DOS boot up and it of
course gives me the a:\> prompt. When I type C:, it say invalid drive specification. I'm at a loss here, I was
really hoping not to give it to a professional rip-off who charges $XX/hr as I'm a poor man. Is there a way to
fix my computer's state? I NEED to get these files that are trapped in my computer for a research project that
I'm working on. Help is desperately needed...Thank you for your time.
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I've tried to reinstall it won't get past boot disk 2 for regular xp home ed and boot disk 3 for xp home ed sp1. what else can I do? I don't have a recovery cd because I bought this laptop from my brother-in-law. Any other ideas?
 
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