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\biosinfo.inf could not be loaded
My operating system has been acting funny for the past week. I decided to reload the operating system, windows xp home edition. Well, I have never done this before but being a computer literate person I figuered, "how hard could it be?" Well, I think I've gotten in way over my head. I created the boot discs and loaded them. Then, when it asked me which partition to use, I deleted the info from my c: drive (big mistake right?). Holding my breath through all the warning screens I deleted the info. Then I tried to load the xp system from the disc and got an error. Like a dummy, I didn't write down the error, instead tried to reload the boot discs again. Now i'm getting the error message below:
File \biosinfo.inf could not be loaded. Error code 4097. How do I fix this problem and load my operating system back on my computer??? Please help if possible!!!! |
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system specs
btw it's a Dell Demension purchased in 2004. It has 80GB harddrive and I think 512MB RAM.
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First installing XP you do not need boot disks like when you install Windows 98x versions. All you need is the xp disk because it's bootable and formats/partitions drives without the need for the boot disks. Set your computer through BIOS/Setup (press F2 when starting the computer) and change boot order to accept your cdrom drive as first boot device. Have your xp cd in the drive and save and exit Setup.
At the prompt, press any key to boot from the cd, then follow the onscreen prompts. If you get any errors post what they are here in this thread. |
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photolady, before I got your reply i tried going through the reboot process again with the 6 floppy discs. my system read the discs and prompted me to the format partition screen. I chose which partition to format and after the formatting was done it gave me this error.
The following value in the .sif file used by setup is corrupted to missing. Value 0 on the line in section [SourceDisksFiles] with key "SP1.cab" I just tried to reboot from the XP CD like you suggested and it gave me this error. NTLDR is missing Press Ctr-Alt-Del to restart |
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Hi aaathene,
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My install cd IS for xp home with sp1 and my BIOS boot sequence IS set to read the CD-drive.
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I don't think my computer boots from the CD drive. That's why I created the 6 floppy discs.
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You said that your computer is a Dell Dimension from 2004, so I'm thinking that perhaps it's similar to the 8200 series. Here is how to boot from CD, from the DELL site:
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GretaP, I've tried altering the boot sequence to boot from the CD but my computer WILL NOT boot from the CD. I don't know what's wrong with it. Maybe the best think is just scrap this one and get a new one?
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Have you tried cleaning the CD and/or cleaning the CD drive's lens? If you have easy access to another CD drive, you could try hooking it up in place of the current drive and see if that solves the problem. |
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