Re: Reinstalling XP Home?

From: Susan (dsnsacree_at_msn.com)
Date: 02/18/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:58:46 -0600

It is nice of you to try to help me. Where are other posts where you tried
to help someone else?

Susan

"w_tom" <w_tom1@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:4216341B.CE8CDBC7@hotmail.com...
> Again, all this would have been made irrelevant had you
> executed the comprehensive hardware diagnostics. Another here
> is saying same. Listed long ago were the simple procedures
> that would have saved you substantial time and may have even
> saved your data.
>
> Why does a hard drive require reformatting? Some reasons
> include a slowing failing - currently intermittent - hard
> drive. Or marginal conditions created by a slowly failing
> power supply. Other reasons include possible intermittent
> memory that will get worse many over the months.
>
> I don't read where you have first identified the reason for
> all your problem. But then you have started new threads on
> the same problem, so it is quite difficult to know what you
> did and did not do.
>
> Currently you are fixing symptoms. When are you first going
> to fix the reason for your initial problem? Windows does not
> just go bad. There should have been a hardware reason for
> that failure - as disk reformatting suggests. Three days ago,
> posted in your first thread, were a long list of facts you
> should have obtained before trying to fix anything. Maybe its
> times to see why you have excessive failures? Unfortunately,
> by doing the restore, you have destroyed important historical
> information that could have said what the problem is before
> the problem happens.
>
> Susan wrote:
>> Windows XP Home was messed up on computer--could not do a restore;
>> could not run rstrui.exe, could not normally start Windows XP Home,
>> could not do repair, etc.
>>
>> I managed to reinstall Windows XP Home from the CD. However when
>> doing the reinstallation I got to part about formatting the
>> partition using the NTFS file system (Quick) vs. formatting without
>> the Quick. When I choose without the Quick, I got the error message
>> about damage to the disk and could not continue. So I went back and
>> did it without the Quick and Windows XP seemed to install. If I had
>> tried to run chkdsk before this point, it would be relying on the
>> old Windows XP right? Now the computer can be shut down and turned
>> on and everything seems okay.
>>
>> I have not run the chkdsk /r. How likely is it that there are still
>> problems if Windows XP Home seems to be functioning okay?
>>
>> Thanks for information.
>> Susan

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