fatal error in WinXP repair

[Guest gtforce]

After a PC crash, I restored a backup from external hard drive. Upon

restarting Windows, I immediately got errors, so I tried repairing WinXP. It

gets through to the restart, and I get the "cannot find 'asms'" error (as

I've seen on several threads here). I changed the path to C:\i386\ and it

found it ok. But now it gets stuck on "The

GLOBALROOT\DEVICE\CDROM0\NT5INF.CAT catalog file could not be found..."

 

I tried copying this file from another laptop onto a CD, but it does not

recognize it. I've read a few suggestions about slipstreaming SP2, but the

recovery CD I've repaired from is WinXP Pro including SP2 - Shouldn't

everything already be on there?

 

Suggestions?

[Guest ARKAP]

RE: fatal error in WinXP repair

 

 

 

"gtforce" wrote:

> After a PC crash, I restored a backup from external hard drive. Upon

> restarting Windows, I immediately got errors, so I tried repairing WinXP. It

> gets through to the restart, and I get the "cannot find 'asms'" error (as

> I've seen on several threads here). I changed the path to C:\i386\ and it

> found it ok. But now it gets stuck on "The

> GLOBALROOT\DEVICE\CDROM0\NT5INF.CAT catalog file could not be found..."

>

> I tried copying this file from another laptop onto a CD, but it does not

> recognize it. I've read a few suggestions about slipstreaming SP2, but the

> recovery CD I've repaired from is WinXP Pro including SP2 - Shouldn't

> everything already be on there?

>

> Suggestions?

>