nunnik6

Ill tell you what I did.... I started the computer witht he XP CD in the drive.... it started through the CD. It went through it's downloads and the computer brought me to a light blue screen that either asked me if I wanted to download XP, repair/recover, or exit. I pressed "R" and it immediately brought me to a screen the said recovery/repair with a command prompt. I researched on the Internet and found a solution on Microsoft. It told me to type in "expand G(my CDROM drive):\i386\vgaoem.fo_c:\windows\system". I typed this in and it told me that the drive could not be found. Ive tried a few different things. I tried the above line with C:/, but when I try it with G:/, it says "access is denied" Am I doing something wrong? Please let me know!

Ok, how do you boot from a live CD and repair the file that way?

Ok, new to the site, so bare with me.... I have seen this subject out there, but I am having trouble. I have gotten a Windows XP Pro disk and I ran recovery with it. Hit r for repair, did not ask for a password, but immediately went to the command page. I then typed in... expand g(my CDROM drive):\i386\vgaoem.fo_c:\windows\system . I then got a "The path or file specified is not valid". I have tried a lot of different things to get this fixed, but now I am running into the statement in the command "access is denied". I got this by getting from c: to g:\i386 (my CDROM drive) and then I type expand g:\i386, etc, etc. Is there a place for a password so I can take care of this problem? or am I doing something wrong? Thanks!