INF File txtsetup.sif corrupt or missing

[jlee]

Before anyone says anything, I've searched but I didn't find one that really hit my error on the head.

A few days ago, my laptop decided not to fully boot and froze so I shut it off. On reboot it wanted to run chckdisk, however, it froze at 9% and then went to a blue screen with vertical stripes. I panicked and thought it died. My dad got it to boot in safe mode (finally) and tried to run chckdisk that way, but same result (just a black screen instead of blue).

So I decided to back up my important data and do a restore. I went to the restore on my laptop (Acer Laptop) and it said it worked but on reboot I got this error (INF FILE txtsetup.sif is corrupt or missing).

So I then tried to do a complete format and reinstall with my backup disks...with the same result. I've seen that people said it is a hardware error (usually a CD-ROM or CD error) but since my error came up when trying to restore without a CD, I'm wondering what people think? My dad seems to think it is a hard drive error because of the fact that it didn't want to run chckdisk.

It is still under warranty (only 10 months old) and I am probably going to take it in but I wanted to ask for opinions first and advice.

Thanks to anyone who can offer assistance in any shape or form.

(Also, I was going to attempt the Microsoft Book Disks thing but since I don't have a floppy drive, I'm afraid that won't work. )

Oops forgot to add that the error message is ALL The laptop will do besides go into setup. It won't go to the boot screen (when I press F8) and windows does not load even though when I did the restore from the disks it said the restore was complete but on restart, the same error comes up and that's all it does.

[juppy]

Have you tried some different memory? Or, if you have more than one stick of memory in there, try using just one stick at a time to see if one works and the other one doesn't. If one doesn't work then that stick is probably bad.

[jlee]

Unfortunately, I do not have extra memory, hard drive, or anything else just lying around and even if I did, I wouldn't have the first clue what to do with it. Thanks though

[Negeva]

Send it back for repairs as it's under warranty. You've pretty much done everything you can do - and all without voiding your warranty by opening the machine up.

[glc]

You can run memory and hard drive diags from a bootable CD. I recommend memtest86+ (www.memtest.org) and if you cannot determine the brand of hard drive, Hitachi Drive Fitness Test (www.hgst.com).

You will need a CD burner and software that is capable of burning a CD from an .iso file. Nero and Roxio are capable, as is the free Deepburner.