- Aug 4, 2000
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I have done all kinds of XP work but am stumped by a current problem. A friend had a surge strike that killed the PS and MB. I thought I would have problems fixing it and I do. The old system was a SIS chipset, the new is an integrated NVidia. Of course there is a major hardware problem. It crashes and reboots when attempting to boot. I tried to install over the existing XP, which I have done like this successfully, but it knows there is another OS on the machine but doesn't allow for a repair install. Is there some way to force an install ontop of the existing installation? I can remove the drive and recover the data but then the guy would have to start again from scratch. Any suggestions are appreciated.
