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trent houser Posted on Mar 10, 2015

Thinkpad r61 wiyh xp pro. keeps saying windowssystem32configsystem wont boot in safe mode either have no original xp disk either

After the \windows\system32\config system comes up it says put the original xp disk in and hit r. well no original xp disk but do have a differnt xp pro. disk have tried it but dose not even tyr to read disk. can someone please help me get my comp. booted up and running.

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