Re: Strange behavoir after system recovery...

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From: Max M.Wachtel III (maxpro4u_at_nomail.afraid.org)
Date: 12/04/04 

Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 21:35:35 -0500

Kerem Gümrükcü wrote:
> Hi,
>
> yesterday i had a very bad experience that i never had before. my harddisk
> took some irreversible damage from a unexpected power failure. the disk had
> been totally damaged except some parts that i was able
> to recover including the operating system partition (os is xp-pro).
>
> I was able to copy the whole os partition on a external drive after i had to
> replace the controller with a new one. But the disk wont work as expected
> and i had to buy a new disk.
> i lost nearly everything due the disk was no more accessible, except the os
> partition. i had to re-create the disk structure (on new disk) and i moved
> the rescued
> system on it, prepared it for a boot-up and let the thing run. it was not as
> easy as i described it
> here. i got so many bsod's
> u wont belive :-)
>
> but after the (recovered) system started everything seemed to be ok, except,
> some drivers and services are not able to start. and something strange
> happended to my
> security subsystem i think. when i want to start some of the services, they
> just wont and there
> are no more error codes, only the hint of some missing dependency on other
> services
> or something like that. Some Applications say that i need to enter a admin
> password to start them and they even dont start after i used my admin
> account with full admin
> permissions.
>
> everything is a bit slower and some application icons cant be shown...
> i checked my permissions and security settings, everything seems to be ok.
> This must be something deeper inside the system...
>
> the disk structure is exactly the same as on the dead system, everthing is
> the same, execept the new harddisk's size and model (vendor)?
> I re-installed the sp2 on the (old) system and problems are still the same
>
> System Starts without any error.............but something with my security
> subsystem seems to be different i guess...
>
> What is that, .... any suggestions?
>
>
> Best Regards
>
> Kerem Gümrükcü
>
>
>
You might try a repair install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
-max 

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