Help, with MS-DOS

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Hello,

I am trying to re-install (repair) XP, i have just passed the password
stage and am confronted with

C:\WINDOWS

Please someone, tell me what I need to enter here, I have tried
everything I can think of, and I just need to make progress, thanks
alot.

dave


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djgosling

 

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djgosling wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to re-install (repair) XP, i have just passed the password
> stage and am confronted with
>
> C:\WINDOWS
>
> Please someone, tell me what I need to enter here, I have tried
> everything I can think of, and I just need to make progress, thanks
> alot.
>
> dave
>
>


This has nothing to do with MS-DOS. You have entered the Recovery
Console.

Description of the Windows XP Recovery Console (Q314058)
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=kb;en-us;Q314058

Presumably, you have a specific reason for having done this. What,
precisely, are you trying to accomplish?


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You have entered the Recovery Console not the repair option.
Visit my website http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org
Click the Win XP Faq button and take a look at question 55

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"djgosling" <djgosling.1mzmdn@pcbanter.net> wrote in message
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>
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to re-install (repair) XP, i have just passed the password
> stage and am confronted with
>
> C:\WINDOWS
>
> Please someone, tell me what I need to enter here, I have tried
> everything I can think of, and I just need to make progress, thanks
> alot.
>
> dave
>
>
> --
> djgosling