http://bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
download....expand to floppy......start system with floppy......format the
drive/partition
remove floppy....restart with XP CD and do new install
Hope you saved your work
peter
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"Maelstrom" <Maelstrom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8676BE23-580F-41CE-9921-54D3BD120F51@microsoft.com...
> Hi All
>
> I have a win xp machine connect to the internet that simply died. I
> supect
> a virus. could not get a windows screen. So I started a Repair cycle
> with
> the Win XP disk. Got to the point with the install wizard to completely
> reformat ( Which I sould hev done) or do the repair. I chose repair. I
> get
> various error messages in the process about missing Catlogue files or
> something like lllfl file corupted.. when I restart with disk I cant get
> out of the repair loop.... even to reformat! I was thinking about booting
> from a Floopy start up disk like the old windows 95 method to gain control
> of
> the CD.. But I dont know how to make a Win XP floopy and the down load
> files
> on the site look to huge to be a floopy size boot up disk.
>
> Anybody got any ideas!
>
> "Puzzled in a loop"
> Lawrence
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