Reinstalling windows xp home edition

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sharon - 25 Aug 2009 à 11:40
 sharon - 26 Aug 2009 à 15:03
Hello, my brother somehow managed to deleted windows from his computor. he put disk in to reinstall it - won't do anything - keeps getting message "can not copy hraidsk1. help pls
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sharpman Posts 1021 Registration date Saturday 23 May 2009 Status Contributor Last seen 20 October 2010 183
25 Aug 2009 à 12:22
at what point does it display this message?
xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday 8 October 2008 Status Contributor Last seen 15 June 2019 1,824
25 Aug 2009 à 12:23
Does he have a RAID disk setup? If so he will need to install the raid drivers via floppy disk at the XP prompt.

Good Luck
thnx. i've pasted your message on to him, he's going to let me know how he gets on. (i'm acting as go between)
sharpman Posts 1021 Registration date Saturday 23 May 2009 Status Contributor Last seen 20 October 2010 183
25 Aug 2009 à 12:49
what is the computer involved. laptop or desktop?
it's a dell desktop
sharpman Posts 1021 Registration date Saturday 23 May 2009 Status Contributor Last seen 20 October 2010 183 > sharon
26 Aug 2009 à 14:41
what model is it?
sharon > sharpman Posts 1021 Registration date Saturday 23 May 2009 Status Contributor Last seen 20 October 2010
26 Aug 2009 à 15:03
have to ask him and get back to u