XP reinstall setup hung; can I get out somehow?

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Setup reported a missing file MSDART.dll but continued. 13% into Install Hardware Components it hung and no amount of rebooting will get it past that point. I tried a boot disk but it reports it can't run Safe Mode during Setup. I can get a c: prompt but I'm not sure what to do with it. Any suggestions would be appreciated as there is 4 years of work on this machine that I would like to access. Is the only alternative to format the hard drive from the c: prompt and reinstall? ... Please tell me it isn't so
William
 
William, if you can get to the C: prompt type:
xcopy x:\i386\*.* c:\i386\*.*/s/e That will attempt to copy
the needed folder to the hard drive. From there
you can try installing from the hard drive.
William said:
Setup reported a missing file MSDART.dll but continued. 13% into Install
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Hardware Components it hung and no amount of rebooting will get it past that
point. I tried a boot disk but it reports it can't run Safe Mode during
Setup. I can get a c: prompt but I'm not sure what to do with it. Any
suggestions would be appreciated as there is 4 years of work on this machine
that I would like to access. Is the only alternative to format the hard
drive from the c: prompt and reinstall? ... Please tell me it isn't so.
 
No you do not have to REFORMAT ..

So don't give up .. this is a MS DAC
Data Access Component problem ..

If you get error messages, press
OK for about a hundred times and it
will finish installing...
 
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