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Trying to do a repair install of Windows 98 on a customer's pc i.e. reinstalling on top of what's there already. The install gets as far as checking the disk and then tells me that because there's an ...

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If your Windows PC won’t boot, and you boot your Windows system using a flash drive to repair the Windows installation, but receive an error prompt with the message ...

The reason why this error occurs is not clear. Although, based on multiple user reports, this error might be triggered if .NET Framework was interrupted due to power ...