Using dictation.
Don't give up yet. you got to this point and got some messages which indicates you are better off than where you were before. Now some of the messages and dialogues are starting to make sense. Apparently, the computer basically works but there is some part of it that is giving you an error when you try to do a repair of the system.
From the experience of others as well as my own, the most likely culprit would be either the hard disk drive or possibly the power supply. However, you might want to try the memory test diagnostic before you go any further. The memory test diagnostic does not require use of the hard drive and does a test of the memory system. In some cases and hard-to-find errors that can only be caught by using a vigorous memory test.
If the memory test can go on for say a half an hour or so, most likely the memory is okay.
Now about the hard drive. It's kind of tough to know what to do about the hard drive. If we erase the drive or reformatted, we lose whatever information was on the drive and the user will be very unhappy about that.
The most conservative thing to do at this point is to put in a new or tested hard drive and do the full installation on a hard drive that is known to be good.
Otherwise, trying to use the same hard drive and hoping you'll find some place on the hard drive that works can be very frustrating and most likely will be very futile.
So, after doing the memory test, your best option is to go find another hard drive.
That's the best I can do for you right now.
By the way, to save time I did this from dictation and the maybe some funny words are some funny grammar here, but this is faster for me.
