Re: New Undocumented Feature! Spontaneous File Relocation
- From: "Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:45:07 -0500
You'll have to locate your Windows XP CD and Product Key
and perform a "repair install".
How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
How to replace lost, broken, or missing Microsoft software or hardware
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[ln];326246
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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups
Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxp/choose.mspx
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"Gunslinger92" wrote:
| This is the tale of two OS's. Last week, due to some power surges, a hard
| drive running windows 2000 was tweaked just enough to not allow windows to
| boot. So I transferred the hard drive to a second computer, and transferred
| all the documents and data files to an XP hard drive. Once the files were
| backed up, I proceeded to (oh so carefully) reformat the 2000 drive, and
| successfully managed to *not* demolish the XP drive. After disconnecting the
| XP drive from the machine, so as not to try and install two OSs on the same
| partition, I proceeded to reinstall windows 2000 on the previous windows 2000
| hard drive.
|
| Upon installation, and the subsequent patching, AV software, and copying of
| the backups, the newly refurbished windows 2000 drive was removed to be
| placed into its original case. But all was not well.
|
| When the two drives were in the same machine, it was treated as a dual boot
| system, and asked whether I wished to boot into 2000 or XP. After removing
| the 2000 hard drive, the dual boot option was still there. Not thinking too
| much of this remaining option, I selected XP. Lo and behold, the XP machine
| attempts to boot into...Windows 2000! Not surprisingly, it couldn't do so.
| Thinking perhaps I had selected the wrong option by mistake, I tried again
| with the same result.
|
| Now the machine will not boot into XP. It will not boot into 2000, unless
| the hard drive that actually has 2000 on it is installed in the machine.
| The backup files from the 2000 computer were only copied to the desktop, not
| the system folders. When in 2000, the XP drive can still be accessed and
| files can be moved between the two hard drives. The windows 2000 drive runs
| normally.
|
| The OEM feels that some 2000 files must have gotten into the XP system to
| cause this problem, but are at a loss as to how exactly it could occur
| without a picture of a patron saint appearing on the case or a microscopic
| black hole appearing inside the room and causing quantum time-space
| distortions, thus briefly suspending the laws of cause and effect.
|
| Are there ANY solutions to a problem like this? The only other options are
| to reformat/reinstall XP on this machine, which will be fun because there is
| no installation disc, or pay the "Help" Desk to just *try* and look at the
| problem, with no garaunteed solution.
.
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