WinXP help?

[Never]

I have an 60GXP IBM 60GIG HDD that I recently got from newegg.com. I installed WinXP Pro final on it, and today when I installed the new drivers for my wireless intelli mouse explorer after I rebooted it didn't make it into WinXP again. Right after the second bios screen it gave me an error saying that my windows\system file was corrupt or missing. What could possibly be wrong that could have done that?

I recently after that fdisk /mbr my hdd, and also fdisk'd it and reformatted it just in case there was a virus attacking the mbr. Do you think that fixed it? My WinXP copy is also legit so I that's not the reason. It's a real CD not a burnt ISO. Hmm, what else could be causing this?

AMD 1.4 Athlon 266 FSB
60GXP 60GIG HDD
Geforce 2 MX 32 MEG
512 MB DDR RAM (CRUCIAL)
Abit KG7-Raid


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[whitelight]

<< I recently after that fdisk /mbr my hdd, and also fdisk'd it and reformatted it just in case there was a virus attacking the mbr. Do you think that fixed it? >>


did you reinstall xp and your drivers after you did that?

 

[Never]

No haven't tried to do that yet. I'm at my girlfriends house. My other computer is at my Father's house right now.

I'll try that first thing tomorrow morning. I just installed the MS Intelli mouse Explorer drivers for the new 3.0 here at my G/F's house, and nothing went wrong. I hope it isn't a compatibility problem with the new mouse. That would suck!

 

[nippyjun]

I don't think you did anything wrong. It was problem just a random glitch. Just make sure you make a restore point before installing the drivers again. then if the same thing happens again, instead of reinstallig the os all over again, just let it repair the installation.