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April 28, 2004 at 01:15 PM
hop228a

Problem booting XP

by hop228a . Updated 22 years, 2 months ago

Hiya people,

A friend is having problems booting his laptop (Dell Inspiron), which he purchase on ebay about 2 years ago. At first the laptop wouldn’t boot from XP on CD. At one stage when he tried to boot up a PCI.sys is corrupt message appears. He’s tried to repair it by expanding the i83 file, it says there’s an error with the C drive. Basically it can’t read from C.

He believes its an hardware issue, but I think its more of a software issue.

Could someone point us in the right direction as to what/how to solve this.

Many thanks for your help.

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