Re: Help I broke my friends PC
From: PopRivet (r91658_at_usadatanet.net)
Date: 02/12/04
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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:29:59 -0500
Is there any way you can remove the HD's and install
them into another working machine? That should allow
you to get the data off them, store it, reformat them,
and put 98 or XP or 98 then XP if it's an upgrade, back
on.
Whether a drive is Master or Slave is usually a
jumper setting on the drive, sometimes on the MB, and
occasionally might be something in CMOS ram, so check
the docu if you don't kinow what yoj're doing.
Pop
Always RTFM when you can!
<gv> wrote in message
news:O7kvAON8DHA.2196@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
| The machine had win 98 (the original, not 2nd ed.),
then he bought a new
| mother board and processor only, plugged the same HD
and it seemed to work,
| kind of. Basically there were so many intermittent
errors, like you could
| not make a new folder in the save as dialog box, and
other weird annoying
| stuff like that. At some point someone else ran
partition magic and split
| his c drive into a c and d drive (c=15 gig, d=5 gig,
why that config, I
| don't know)
| So I come along and convince him buy win xp home
upgrade, which he did. So
| here is what happened.
| I ran the setup from within win 98. It loaded the
set up files and
| rebooted. Since it was win 98 both the c & d drive
were fat32.
| When the dos looking setup screen started after boot
up, it only asked me if
| I wanted to quick format the D drive only, in either
fat32 or ntfs, or
| complete format in fat32 or ntfs or leave it alone (5
options). Well the D
| drive is where I stored all their data like their
kids pictures, so of
| course I said leave it alone, but it never asked me
the same options for the
| c drive. So after I said leave it alone, it
proceeded to load the OS on the
| d drive, never letting me stop or select a folder to
store windows in. I
| expected the choice of over writing c:\windows or
selecting another folder,
| but no choices after I said leave it alone. So to
make a long story a
| little shorter, it loaded perfectly on the d drive
and after reboot, the
| boot.ini rightfully gave me the option to boot into
xp home or "Microsoft
| Windows" (funny how it doesn't refer to Win98).
| Now silly me decided to edit the boot ini file and
delete many of the old
| files that I THOUGHT were only needed for win98 (like
autoexec.bat, ...)
| So I ended deleting too many files off of the c root
and now when I
| reboot it says NTLR or something like that is
missing.
| So I was able to boot from the cd and try to repair,
but each time it asks
| for the administrator password (which I never set
one, and I only added mom
| and dad as users, not admin), I hit enter and it just
brings me to the dos
| prompt (d:\windows). Every folder I try to change to
says access denied.
| Is there a way to load any files back on the c drive
and if so which files
| do I need. Or can I get into the recycle bin and
copy the files back on the
| c drive? Right now it says access is denied. My
friend and his wife don't
| care about
| the fact its backwards (windows and programs on d and
personal data on c,
| there is 15 gig on c and 5 gig on d, so it can work
backwards).
| Thanks for any help and sorry for the long story.
| gv
|
|
|
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