Re: Re-Install
From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 03/11/04
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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:57:36 +0000
Bob wrote:
> I noticed that the "new" copy
>of WindowsXp was installed on my "G" Drive and I still
>have the "old" copy of WindowsXp on my "C" Drive.
>Obviously I don't need / don't want two copies of
>WindowsXp and would like to know how to move the "good"
>copy of WindowsXp from "G" to "C"?
Once it has picked up an entry of a drive letter into the registry, you
are stuck with it. You must I think have taken New Install and then
accepted the system's suggestion of where to put it, which has taken a
different partition so as not to overwrite the existing one.
Two choices:
One is to try a repair install of the one on C: - Set the BIOS to boot
CD before Hard disk, then boot the XP CD, start Setup (do not take
'Repair' at this stage), then after the license agreement take 'Repair
Installation'. Make sure you select the system on the C as the one to
repair. This will retain your existing software installations and most
settings. But Updates will have to be run again, especially SP1;
It is important to activate the basic XP Firewall before you ever
connect to the net to get the patches, so as to be protected against
things like the BLAST worm. You would also need then to delete the
windows folder that has been made in G and then run MSconfig.exe and on
the boot.ini page take 'check all paths', so as to get that entry
removed from the boot
Other is to do a new New Install (as opposed to that Repair) and this
time when it asks where, hit ESC, select the C: and delete it; then make
a new RAW one and select that as the place. Might be as well to delete
the G: too if there is nothing else serious on it, and replace that
partition from Disk Management when the system is up and running again.
-- Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies) Bournemouth, U.K. Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)
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