[JackCoke]

So I started off having a problem (don't remember exact nature) where I could not start up my computer. Threw in my windows XP disk to reformat and it gets about 70 percent or so through the installation and I get that sparrow.sys error and all I can do is restart and try to reinstall windows again which just leads back to the aformentioned problem. I can't install because of that problem. Did something fry out on my computer?

I did not install anything new on my computer in the last 3 months or so nor have I had any other problems until this point.

On a friends computer at the moment. Any help would be appreciated.

By the way, if this is in the wrong forum then I apologize.

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