Issue:
I had following error message
"INF file txtsetup.sif is corrupt or missing status 4096". This happened
after a virus attack. One of the hard drive partition also got emptied.

Resolution:
I removed all peripherals other than monitor, keyboard and mouse
I tried to boot from a bootable XP cd and it throwed error.
Then I tried Windows 7 and I was able to complete a new installation. 

Result:
System is working fine now
Lost data of emptied drive (which had virus attack). I couldnt recover
that  as I forced to install Windows 7 in this drive due memory
constraints in other partitions.

Learning: Always keep a good amount of free space in ur 'C' drive Or any
other drive so that in a OS crash, you can proceed with new OS
installation.

To resolve this issue COMPLETE FORMAT is not required


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