Re: Orphaned Files from chkdsk NOW are missing

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From: WinGuy (no_spam_at_nomail.bot)
Date: 07/16/04 

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:50:58 GMT

"JC Chase" <JCChase@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:92670319-998A-4DD4-A39A-D03AFCA8A4D9@microsoft.com...
> No clone was done I simply copied and pasted the files so I could format
the 40 gig and re-install windows XP. even at this point everytime I
restart my system I have to hit any key so as to avoid chkdsk from doing it
again (chkdsk is still reporting errors on the 160 gig HD) there are folders
it (chkdsk) says: The file or folder is corrupted and unreadable. Would it
have anything to do with the security settings? Maybe when I formatted my
system I should have allowed "everyone" security access?

To reiterate from my previous message about this issue:

A copy & paste methodology simply will not work as a method of making a
bootable backup copy (a clone) of an entire HDD and there is now no way at
all to recover from your procedural error, since you no longer have the
original C drive. The methodology you used, reinstall of Windows and then
copy of system and program files to that new installation, simply will not
work. That's a fact. With your new 160 gig HDD, Maxtor provided you with a
very special utility on an included CD for the specific purpose of making a
bootable copy of an existing HDD. You were supposed to use that utility to
make a bootable copy of your entire old HDD over to the new one, and it
would have just worked when you removed the old drive and made the new drive
be drive C. There was no need to reinstall Windows at all, it would have
just worked but you'd have had a bigger HDD for drive C. Maxtor provided
you with clear and written documentation explaining how to use the utility
CD provided with your new HDD, and the CD has on it documentation that fully
explains how to properly make a bootable copy of a HDD. :(

You must start all over and install Windows absolutely from scratch, install
your programs, do updates, etc. Except for user created data files, your
procedural error has resulted in an unrecoverable loss of your old
installation of Windows and all the programs that were installed on it. I'm
very sorry, but that's just the way things are, unless you have the original
and unmodified in any way drive C installation still available or a properly
created bootable copy (clone) of it. :(

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