Re: Re-installing XP home
From: cashdeskmac (cashdeskmac_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/08/04
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Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 09:41:07 -0700
Thanks for the input, guys. I did a dskchk last night and after 5 1/2 hours
it told me that the file system was corrupt. I eventually selected Install
Windows XP and had to format my hard drive again. I now have a working
computer but with no icons, very little in the Programs menu of start up and
have to reconfigure my IIS settings to reinstall some of the software I need.
I will attempt a clean install of XP Home tonight but would appreciate it if
anyone could tell me the best way to copy over all of the files on my PC to
my damaged laptop. Would it be best to do it over a network connection? If
I use the File Transfer Wizard, roughly how many CD would I need? Could I
copy over everything (including the OS) from one to the other?
Look forward to hearing from you,
Alan
"Michael Stevens" wrote:
>
> "cashdeskmac" <cashdeskmac@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:89140CCE-1AEC-461E-B977-EEE6FA9F1C18@microsoft.com...
> > Hi, I took my laptop to a "friend" to take a look at because I was having
> > a
> > couple of problems and he know's hardware. Unfortunately, he decided to
> > do
> > me a "Favour" and install XP pro, whereas I had XP home originally.
> > Things
> > were fine until I couldn't use System restore, and yesterday when I
> > installed
> > SP2 it wiped my hard drive!! After 14 hours and much sweating I could
> > only
> > re-install XP pro but would like to get rid of it and have my loving home
> > edition back. Can anyone guide me through the process of uninstalling pro
> > and re-installing home... without me having to pay a fortune or having to
> > get
> > my "Friend" to do it.
> >
> > P.S I've just started programming in C# on a Computeach course and after
> > writing a few of dozen of my own programs and classes to turn into my own
> > personal DLL they got wiped as well!! Six months of hard study down the
> > toilet!!
> >
> > Any help would be most appreciated.
> >
> > Alan
>
> If your data is very important, purchase a new hard drive then have a
> professional service retrieve the data from the old drive or if you have
> another system [desktop] you can connect the hard drive and use retrieval
> software to retrieve the data yourself. Do some Google searches on "data
> retrieval" to find the software utilities professional data retrieval
> specialists.
> Install the new hard drive, use the restore disks that came with the laptop
> to restore the laptop to the original shipped state. Be sure to enable a
> firewall before connecting to the internet. Then apply the latest updates.
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