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The Fool · 02-07-2005, 22:08

Hello to the forum. A friend mentioned I may get some help. My computer appears to be totally done for. Two years old and windows xp. It all started when the mouse would not work properly. I changed the batteries and it was usually be ok after a reboot or two. In the end it became constant, and I even tried a different mouse. The upshot of it all was that I tried to use the restore disks and pressed the 'reinstall windows' option which worked for all the first disk but about half of the second one where it encounterd a 'cannot read file' error. Now I am stuck with a situation where I get the machine to bootup to the part where you get the option to choose 1 or 2 to reinstall windows or boot from a floopy etc. I choose the reinstall windows option and am given the warning for either Y or N to proceed. When I press the Y nothing happens but if I press the N it goes onto a "a:>" prompt. I just don't know what to do now.

02-07-2005, 22:08	#1
The Fool Permanently Banned Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 84	Help Hello to the forum. A friend mentioned I may get some help. My computer appears to be totally done for. Two years old and windows xp. It all started when the mouse would not work properly. I changed the batteries and it was usually be ok after a reboot or two. In the end it became constant, and I even tried a different mouse. The upshot of it all was that I tried to use the restore disks and pressed the 'reinstall windows' option which worked for all the first disk but about half of the second one where it encounterd a 'cannot read file' error. Now I am stuck with a situation where I get the machine to bootup to the part where you get the option to choose 1 or 2 to reinstall windows or boot from a floopy etc. I choose the reinstall windows option and am given the warning for either Y or N to proceed. When I press the Y nothing happens but if I press the N it goes onto a "a:>" prompt. I just don't know what to do now.