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Old 05-11-2010, 07:18 PM
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Originally Posted by supernova1965 View Post
You should be able to boot to the installation cd and press press Enter as if you are going to install XP. After agreeing to the terms, you will be given the option to perform a repair. That should get you back to normal
Assuming he has the CD, which many manufacturers - especially of laptops - do not provide.

If the CD repair works, you have to reapply all patches newer than the CD. For example, my XP Pro CD is SP2. Good thing I have a CD with SP3.
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