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Postby Wonderjava » Sun Apr 05, 2009 6:39 pm

i repaired windows xp with the cd, now the computer starts but nothing shows up on the screen....any ideas?
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Re: HELP

Postby Psymon » Sun Apr 05, 2009 7:01 pm

Could you elaborate on 'repaired'.

As I understand it, when you bung in the XP install disk and do 'repair' it takes you to a console and you have to do a manual repair.
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Re: HELP

Postby Gecko » Mon Apr 06, 2009 1:13 am

There is what is commonly referred to as "In-Place Upgrade" or "re-installation" that can also be done from an XP cd.
But this will only work right if your windows XP cd has the same service pack version as the system currently has.
If the system has SP3 installed and the XP cd is SP2 then you would have to uninstall SP3 first and then do the "In-Place Upgrade"
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