Repair Installation problems

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To cut a moderately long story short I was having problems booting Windows XP
and was getting an error message saying that "load needed DLL's for kernel".
I searched for solutions to this and found that the recommended solution by
microsoft was a repair install which I am now trying to do. However after
booting from the CD and starting the repair install process booting windows
now takes several minutes which it didn't before and all that happens after
this period is the setup window appears, tells me that it will take 39
minutes to finish the installation but then quickly goes wrong saying that
"setup failed to install the product catalouges" and gives the error code of
3e7 which means nothing to me.

Is there anything that can be done to fix this?
 
Well I may not have got a reply but I did manage to find this page
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307153/en-us) that mentions a similar error
message that appears when upgrading a windows OS to XP rather than trying a
repair install on XP whixh is what I am trying to do. However the resolution
of changing the name of "catroot2" hasn't helped. I am still getting the
same error message appearing at the same time in the process. It may be a
similar problem though so if anyone knows of any other file that may be
causing the problem I would like to know. There is a directory called
"catroot" as well as "catroot2" would it be worth changing the name of that
too?

Any help would be appreciated.
 
Well, we are in the same boat. I'm guessing that by now, you have resolved
this problem.

May I ask how?

Thanks,
Wishing
 
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