I'm in big trouble, help me please!

[deathwalker]

Boomerangs point is well taken. Im sure skipping that file prompt will not bother the install at all. It will get installed when you install the Nvidia platform drivers.

 

[imported_nocturne]

Problem is, once you install the nvidia drivers, MS completely forgets about theirs and there is no way to boot to tell XP to use them.

If you have a system backup, that would work but you would have to be able to activate it without XP whatsoever (can't boot to use systemrestore (don't know if that's required, since I never used it)). Booting into the LAST GOOD CONFIG won't work because the last time it worked was with the Nvidia drivers, which were removed by Driver Cleaner.

Reinstalling XP over itself would work, but I never advise installing OS's on top of eachother. And a format would take long enough you might as well do the method a described before, just to save on setup time.

 

[imported_nocturne]

Another possible way would be to disable the driver from being needed by windows from the recovery console, but I don't know if that driver would be listed amongst the MS system ones.

I believe you type "listservices", look for nvatabus.sys. If it's there take the name it provides for it and use the disable command.

I am probally wrong on the exact commands, but you can always type HELP or DISABLE /?

 

[Smilin]

There are ways to fix this in a surgical manner. The files you need to boot are going to be located in either your system volume information folder or dll cache. The changes to your registry can be undone with hives from system volume information or (as a temporary boot workaround) your repair folder.

Thing is you're going to need to really know what you are doing to go down this path.

The easier path is to do a repair install. It has a pretty high chance of success when you have only hosed things with driver removal. Repairs start failing when you have third party apps and services set to boot or system start types and they have missing files.

Just do a repair. If you are IDE the inbox drivers will work fine. If you are SATA, be sure to F6 when you boot from your CD to start the repair. Be sure the repair goes like this: F6 your drivers as needed, hit enter at the first screen to install windows, hit R at the next screen when it detects your existing OS.