Re: Repair XP installation

From: Ken (Nobody_at_Home)
Date: 12/29/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 23:28:22 -0500

Check your jumpers on your drives. Master, Slave, Cable Select. Adding a new
drive may have changed things on the IDE's

"Jon Erlandson" <jerlands@NOSPAM.sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:Ot3jDbV7EHA.2180@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Try booting into Safe Mode by tapping the F8 key before windows loads. I
> sounds like a driver issue. You can update it from there.
>
>
> "Montreal" <Montreal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:CE094E9E-7AB0-4088-98E1-4274F5C82035@microsoft.com...
>> Hi,
>> While installing a new DVD my PC has suddenly lost one of the two XP
>> installations (on separate HDs) I have on my PC. I can access my backup
>> one
>> but not my primary one (i.e. the one with all my data). When I use the
>> backup
>> one I can see all of the data (on the primary HD). When I use the XP disk
>> to
>> try a repair installation I have two options:
>> a) Jump into Recovery Console and then I don't have a clue what to do.
>> b) Reinstall XP onto the primary HD but the system warns me that I will
>> lose
>> all data in My Documents.
>>
>> Surely there must be some way of reinstalling Windows while keeping my
>> data
>> and settings (cookies etc.).
>>
>> thanks,
>> Montreal
>
>

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