About a month ago, I downloaded this game called BINARY
from natomic.com, it was a simple little Nintendo style
game, but it somehow changed some important files.
Whenever I restart my computer, and i log in, a message
displays saying that some files have been changed, and it
asks me to insert the Windows XP CD so the computer can
restore the original files. XP came with my comp, so I
don't have the CD. The file changes weren't big enough to
do much damage, because I haven't noticed anything wrong.
But, I just bought a game, and the game required that I
install Direct X 9.0b. It tried but then a message came
up saying that Direct X didn't pass the security test for
XP. I thought this strange, but was sure it was the fault
of the changed files. I then downloaded Direct X 9.0b
directly from Microsoft.com. It tried to install but the
same prompt came up telling me that the download files
didn't pass the security test. I'm sure that if I
repaired the files, that I would be able to install
direct x 9.0b, but I don't have a CD. Does anyone know a
way to restore the files without an XP CD?

Re: XP came with comp/need cd 4 repair by Vanguard

Vanguard
Mon Oct 20 01:41:08 CDT 2003

If Windows XP did really come with the computer then you got some media
to reinstall it either as the product itself, the computer vendor's
restore media, or as disk images. If you got no media to perform an
*install* of Windows XP then you never got Windows XP (a static install
of an OS is not an *installable* and licensed version of that OS). Talk
to whomever sold you the computer and demand they provide you with the
Windows XP *installation* media, force them to refund your money on a
return of the computer, or tell them that you'll be contacting your
State Attorney's Office in filing fraud and software piracy charges
against them as well as informing Microsoft and the FBI.

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"Mark" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:00e901c396c4$56083240$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> About a month ago, I downloaded this game called BINARY
> from natomic.com, it was a simple little Nintendo style
> game, but it somehow changed some important files.
> Whenever I restart my computer, and i log in, a message
> displays saying that some files have been changed, and it
> asks me to insert the Windows XP CD so the computer can
> restore the original files. XP came with my comp, so I
> don't have the CD. The file changes weren't big enough to
> do much damage, because I haven't noticed anything wrong.
> But, I just bought a game, and the game required that I
> install Direct X 9.0b. It tried but then a message came
> up saying that Direct X didn't pass the security test for
> XP. I thought this strange, but was sure it was the fault
> of the changed files. I then downloaded Direct X 9.0b
> directly from Microsoft.com. It tried to install but the
> same prompt came up telling me that the download files
> didn't pass the security test. I'm sure that if I
> repaired the files, that I would be able to install
> direct x 9.0b, but I don't have a CD. Does anyone know a
> way to restore the files without an XP CD?



Re: XP came with comp/need cd 4 repair by alun

alun
Mon Nov 03 08:00:35 CST 2003

In article <8sLkb.186865$%h1.178898@sccrnsc02>, "Vanguard" <no-email@post-reply-in-newsgroup.nix> wrote:
>Talk
>to whomever sold you the computer and demand they provide you with the
>Windows XP *installation* media, force them to refund your money on a
>return of the computer, or tell them that you'll be contacting your
>State Attorney's Office in filing fraud and software piracy charges
>against them as well as informing Microsoft and the FBI.

Usually best to start with "Hi, I bought this system from you, and now I
need to reinstall the OS on it. Could you tell me how to do this, since I
don't appear to have an installation disk?"

Just because there's no media in the box, doesn't mean that there isn't
provision for installation - I've seen some systems where the OEM thought
that it was enough to simply put a partition in there that holds all of the
installation data. Never mind that the user bought a 40GB hard drive as
part of the system, and finds that there's a bunch of it used up in what
ought to be shipped as a CD...

Alun.
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