www.bootdisk.com has some utilities to assist in recovering files
or
remove the hd, connect as slave or via enclosure to another PC to recover
files
"James Scheinbaum" <JamesScheinbaum@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:1C3AEF75-2635-4E6B-8953-7B05CED35A0E@microsoft.com...
>I have a bootable CD to access my daughter documents which I was able to
>copy
> to floppies.
> I can't load the OEM Windows XP software or the SP2 Software.
> When running the Active Boot Disk I run out of Memory fast. I show only
> 220
> KB of memory. Is thaT MY PROBLEM?
>
> Also the VGAOEM.FON file is misssing. I can't copy it to the folder for
> some reason.
>
> I need to diagnose my computer to find out what the hell is going on.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
>
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> I have a box that is running Win XP Pro SP1 and has been fine until last
> night. It is my daughters machine and she is doing homework on it.
> Yesterday she comes to me and say's it won't work.
>
> I started it up and it say's it has a
> "missing or corrupt file windows\system32\vgaoem.fon" and would I like to
> repair it using the original install CD.
> Ok I tried that and it won't work. Yes, I went into the Bios and set CD to
> start at boot. It would boot up and then give me an error beep and return
> to
> the original error just described.
> I downloaded the 6 setup disks and used them to start up the system and
> got
> "missing or corrupt bios??.inf". Would you like to exit and restart?"
>
> (?? = I forgot the filename)
>
> All I want to do is access the A:drive in a DOS Environment, then Access
> the
> c: root, then get my daughters homework off.
>
> Please Help. I have now spent over 6 hrs working on this issue before
> bugging you guys so now I'm desparate and don't want to turn it over to
> the
> geek squad just yet.
>
>
>