Is Win XP (Home) fatally flawed?
- From: "DW" <dw@xxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:13:33 -0000
Hi all,
This won't even be seen on radar probably but I will ask anyway!
Scenario:
I was doing some work on a Company Director's home computer as his
daughter
needed to get a college assignment out the next day. The PC in question
has
Win XP Home (I know, but you do these thing's :-( )
It had crashed when a 256mb pen drive was attached and was left in a
state
of non-boot. Safe mode/Last Known good etc failed to get it past the
Windows
Welcome screen.
The problem is that there are five in the family each with a User
account.
Downloading dodgy music and what not from sharing sites. I thought the
quickest and easiest would be to do a Manufacturers Recovery Partition
with
a clean install of Win XP and a saving of everything on the hard drive.
The recovery routine in question looked quite good, it saved the old HD
contents to a fresh folder. So far so good!
Then, I recreated new user accounts and tried to copy over the contents
of
each old user account. Three worked fine, two however gave Access Denied
errors. I tried booting into safe mode to gain access to the security
tab
for the folders, took ownership, unchecked Read Only etc, even gave the
everyone group full control, but whatever I tried, I got an Access
Denied on
these two folders. Managed to get some of the child folders to open
however.
Now I have seen this many times before with XP Home. Each user account
is
created in the same way, all local admins etc. For instance, upgrading a
to
a new PC. Take out old drive and put it in as secondary, copy over the
old
user data but some folders work and some don't! Usual routes for gaining
control fail miserably.
What with hard drives being so big nowadays and everyone with IPods and
GB's
of music files etc, a straight upgrade or recovery is a long-winded
affair.
The actual recovery from hidden partition only took about ten minutes,
but
getting all the user accounts setup, copying the data over and
reinstalling
software takes ages. Not forgetting all the Windows updates!
Anyway,
Has anybody any thoughts on this?
Thanks for reading,
Dave W
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