Okay. First things first. I don't know what my friend did to her
computer but by the time I got to it, it would boot to where you should
login and then show nothing but a blue screen (not the blue screen of
death, though). She said she had someone else look at it who said the
hard drive needed to be replaced. I told her I'd try something first.

I'm trying to wipe her hard drive clean and put Vista on there. The
first time through I got the message "Windows could not set the offline
locale information. Error Code: 0x80FE0000." I did a couple Google
searches and found lots of forums explaining what to do, but none of
this has worked so far. My latest attempt involved me getting to the
install screen, clicking install, putting in the product key and
unchecking the automatically update box, accepting the license, and then
clicking custom (advanced) installation. This brought me to the screen
to pick the hard drive I wanted to install on. I formatted the partition
i wanted, then tried to install, but I'm still having problems.
Sometimes I get the same error, and once I got an error saying windows
cannot access the the installation sources yada yada.

Sorry for the wall of text. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in
advance.


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