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Ray Parrish <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 3 Apr 2009 19:06:02 -0700
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Hello,

Is it possible that you had just been updated to Service Pack 3? This is 
a known problem when upgrading some systems to SP3. For a fix, read the 
page at the link below.

<http://www.paranormal-marketing.com/2008/05/09/biosinfoinf/>

Later, Ray Parrish

Harvey Rose wrote:
> Home edition quit booting giving me the message:
>
> \Windows\inf\biosinfo.inf  missing or corrupt.
>
> I have copied the partition to another drive. After setting up another Hardrive (IDE drive)with Windows XP and looking at the corrupt drive I can't find any Servicepackfiles under Windows to copy this file into the proper place.
>
> The problem is I have an upgrade version of Windows XP Home Edition with Service pack 1. The version corrupt is Service Pack 2 on a SATA drive. Is there a way I can copy this file to the corrupt drive to see if it will work? I now have Windows XP running on another drive but without my programs that take time to reinstall along with the proper drivers.
>
> Harvey Rose
>
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