Re: Remove Hard Drive info from XP Registry

From: AustinTex (AustinTex_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/18/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 09:19:01 -0700

Rick, thanks for the response -- good suggestion. However, my system (IBM
NetVista) was pre-configured with XP Home. They do not distribute an XP
recovery disk but you can order a CD for about $35. Instead, they put the
recovery and install program on the drive. You access it with a CNTL key
sequence at boot.

It appears that the program only allows safe mode boot or reformat & install
from what I can see. Am I missing something / is it possible to perform this
same repair install from the IBM on-disk recovery program?

"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You need to do a repair install. You won't lose your accounts, data, and
> installed applications this way, but you need to do this to get the right
> file system set to match the hardware. See this:
> http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
> www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "AustinTex" <AustinTex@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C40F97A3-5C90-4026-A650-659E511D67C9@microsoft.com...
> > My original system hard drive was failing sectors rapidly. Before losing
> > the
> > entire drive, I managed to do an image copy to a new Segate drive. My
> > goal
> > was to avoid a full reinstall given the time that would be required to
> > reload
> > all of the existing applications and user data. I then swapped the
> > Seagate
> > drive as drive C:. All applications are working, the data is all there
> > but,
> > on bootup, XP tries to install the new drives and then fails due to filter
> > driver conflicts.
> >
> > I want to back out hardware definitions from the registry so that XP can
> > properly install and account for the new drive. Is this the correct path
> > and, if so, what entries should I remove?
> >
> >
>
>
>

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