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Upgrade to SP3 gone bad! ...missing or corrupt biosinfo.inf

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Post October 14th, 2008, 8:52 am

upgraded to MS XP SP3 and rebooted. Now I am getting the following message:

Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt biosinfo.inf

I don't have the OS CD that came with the Dell desktop. Checked the MS site, but the KB entry (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829784) is not very helpful. Not sure what to do. Any ideas??

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Post October 14th, 2008, 8:52 am

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Post October 14th, 2008, 11:46 am

Did you try doing what it said? If so what happened?
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Post October 15th, 2008, 11:30 am

Without the recovery disk you cannot follow the directions in the MS KB.
Came up with a different solution. I borrowed a USB to IDE/SATA cable and hooked it into my laptop. I then downloaded all my critical data to my laptop and then copied back the biosinfo.inf file back into the inf directory. I rebooted the desktop and the SP3 installation completed successfully. This was a very simple and cheap solution ($20 at TigerDirect).

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