I goofed! Please Help.

Chadr · #1 04-17-2007, 09:02 AM

I was putting togather a computer and could not get win xp to install, So I put the drive in my good computer and was going to install it anyway. Needless to say , it went into my disk drive. Now I cant boot my system up. I tried to reinstall XP but I have a SATA drive, and when I F6 and install the drivers for it, it says the file is corrupt, so I cant do a reinstall. My question is, I know there is a file, Boot.ini? that I can modify to take out the installed start up files, or is there another way to get my computer to boot up again?

Thanks for your time

Able · #2 04-17-2007, 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Chadr

when I F6 and install the drivers for it, it says the file is corrupt, so I cant do a reinstall.
Thanks for your time

Can you not download the drivers you need again?

Chadr · #3 04-17-2007, 10:49 AM

Those are the downloaded driver that are corrupt.

Able · #4 04-17-2007, 10:54 AM

Thats not so good. What drivers are they exactly?

Chadr · #5 04-17-2007, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Able

Thats not so good. What drivers are they exactly?

they are the sata drivers. I have a PCI sata controller card. The drivers are from the manufactures website for that card.

Able · #6 04-17-2007, 11:16 AM

Have you tried downloading them again? They sometimes get a bit fubar when d/loading! ( I realise they were your sata drivers, I meant what filename, etc)

Chadr · #7 04-17-2007, 01:45 PM

the drivers are SIS 1331 or 3113 or something like that. its a SIS SATA controler, and I have dled them 3 seperate times to no aveil. I think I will just go get a new PCI sata controler and go from there, that seems to be the easiest step to take

Able · #8 04-18-2007, 02:52 AM

It seems most odd that XP thinks that the drivers are corrupt 3 times! Is there a read me file that you can see when you unzip the drivers?