missing setup files

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been asked to look at a friends computer who in turn was looking at it for
someone else. he thought it was a hard drive failure. However fitting a
new one and the windows setup states that it can't copy certain files
error at line 1069 sif.sys or somesuch.


Tried hard disk in a different system and used same cd and installed fine.
Of course once transferred to the original system it won't finish booting
into windows gets so far and restarts. tried a repair installation from
the cd and 'cannot copy file ' perhaps the cd is faulty. 15 or twenty files
like that. retry and skip etc and again system won't quite finish booting.
Any suggestions?
 
ian said:
been asked to look at a friends computer who in turn was looking at it for
someone else. he thought it was a hard drive failure. However fitting a
new one and the windows setup states that it can't copy certain files
error at line 1069 sif.sys or somesuch.


Tried hard disk in a different system and used same cd and installed fine.
Of course once transferred to the original system it won't finish booting
into windows gets so far and restarts. tried a repair installation from
the cd and 'cannot copy file ' perhaps the cd is faulty. 15 or twenty files
like that. retry and skip etc and again system won't quite finish booting.
Any suggestions?
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If the CD is OK, I've seen that with dodgy RAM. If there's two DIMMS in
it, try it with each one in on their own.
 
ian lincoln said:
been asked to look at a friends computer who in turn was looking at it for
someone else. he thought it was a hard drive failure. However fitting a
new one and the windows setup states that it can't copy certain files
error at line 1069 sif.sys or somesuch.


Tried hard disk in a different system and used same cd and installed
fine. Of course once transferred to the original system it won't finish
booting into windows gets so far and restarts. tried a repair
installation from the cd and 'cannot copy file ' perhaps the cd is
faulty. 15 or twenty files like that. retry and skip etc and again
system won't quite finish booting. Any suggestions?
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sif.sys seems to be related to TV.
Has it got a TV tuner or summat in the machine ?.
Win setup is telling you it can`t find the files or drivers for something !.
So you`ll have to remove that device, to install windows.
Then sort that problem afterwards.
 
old jon said:
sif.sys seems to be related to TV.
Has it got a TV tuner or summat in the machine ?.
Win setup is telling you it can`t find the files or drivers for something
!.
So you`ll have to remove that device, to install windows.
Then sort that problem afterwards.
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I don't believe so. The only peripheral is the modem everything else is
built into the board.
 
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