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Unsuccessful Windows XP repair Help

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by nydana8

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To make a long story short:

I ran a Windows repair from the Recovery Console using what I think is the original XP Installation CD, and got 36 errors of "Cannot Copy File". The repair completed without these files and my system is back to a perpetual boot. I tried doing the repair again, but now I get a "Setup cannot find a previous version of Windows installed. ...needs to verify you qualify to use this upgrade product". When I backed out of it I got a "Windows XP is not completely set up. Are you sure you want to exit?". I did exit as I was not sure if this was going to be a repair or it was going to reinstall. At this point, what is the proper curse of action for a second repair try?
My technical guy told me that the reason I got all of these errors is that there is something wrong with the hard drive and I have to reinstall Windows Clean and reformat the drive. Is this correct? I do have a backup of my entire C:drive on a removable hard drive. However, I have a professional radio software in there that cannot be copied over and I am unable to reinstall from scratch. What else can I do to fix Windows?

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by rob miners

I reckon that you have Bad Sectors on the Hard Drive. Recently went through this ended up with the same results. Ran the Seagate tools on the drive and Bad Sector after Bad Sector. Tried to repair the drive with Daricks Boot and Nuke came up with no errors. Ran the Seagate Tools on the drive and it came up with no errors. I thought that I was onto something here so I put it in a PC and installed Vista. Went without a hitch. Going great now for the updates. Required a restart. Geez not the Blue Screen!
Ran chkdsk and lo and behold errors everywhere. I may have wasted a bit of time but I did learn something. Time for a new Hard drive.

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