Recovery problem

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  1. cooltf

    cooltf

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    I have a Acer Aspire 5000 with XP home. It continually recycles through the boot up screen giving me the option of normal start, safe mode etc. None of them work. I formatted the drive and lost the partition. I tried to reload XP with the disks that came with the system and no go. I tried a full blown version of XP and it states "DMBOOTSYS" is corrupted. I have also received the error of "Shell32.dll is not valid". I have tried the Acer restore CDs, A full version of XP and a full version of WIN98. Any help would be appreciated as I have exzausted all of my ideas

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    cooltf, Feb 26, 2012
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    something back

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    Try super fdisk it's a dos based partition manager

    Here's a link http://www.freewarefiles.com/Super-Fdis ... 44285.html

    You will have to (delete the partition) from within the program that can be run from a usb stick or cd

    Next you will then have to (create) a new partition again from within the fdisk program, then finally format.

    You should now be able to reload your windows setup disks/cd's
     
    something back, Feb 26, 2012
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