By upgrade, I am thinking you mean a repair installation. Hopefully that
will work; however, should a format installation become necessary, you could
slave your drive up to another functioning XP system and copy the needed
files that way.
--
Regards
Ron Badour
MS MVP
Windows Desktop Experience
"Wayne" <Wayne@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
> I think i'm gonna try a Windows XP Updgrade to see if it will reinstall
> the
> windows components and get it back in working order. I just need to keep
> the
> personal files on the HD.
>
> "Wayne" wrote:
>
>>
>> On the first article, where I think my problem might be fixed, how do I
>> get
>> to the command prompt if I cannot even boot up in safe mode with command
>> prompt? I cannot boot in any mode without the stop error coming up.
>>
>> "Ron Badour" wrote:
>>
>> > http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=156669
>> >
>> > http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=318666
>> >
>> > http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823736
>> >
>> > Those articles may help
>> >
>> > --
>> > Regards
>> >
>> > Ron Badour
>> > MS MVP
>> > Windows Desktop Experience
>> >
>> >
>> > "Wayne" <Wayne@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> > news:978A5156-E49A-4EAA-98EE-74C1FC6EFFF8@microsoft.com...
>> > >I am getting the blue screen Stop: C000021a {Fatal System Error} Logon
>> > > Process terminated error upon boot. There were some viruses on the PC
>> > > which
>> > > were removed in safe mode with AVG. However, I think the lsass.exe
>> > > was
>> > > terminated in the task manager during the process. Any Ideas? Would
>> > > the
>> > > lsass.exe file cause this stop error?
>> > >
>> > > Thanks.
>> >
>> >
>> >