Re: Clean install?

Hi Kevin,

All three links I posted work perfect here. I would say the repair
install would be the next step.

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Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org


"Kevin" wrote

So far I've done this:

"One more suggestion from MVP Alex Nichol

Reboot, this time taking the immediate R option and if the CD letter
is say
K: give these commands

copy K:\i386\ntldr C:\
copy K:\i386\ntdetect.com C:\


(two other files needed - just in case)

1. Type: attrib -h -r -s C:\boot.ini del C:\boot.ini

2. Type: BootCfg /Rebuild

which will get rid of any damaged boot.ini, search the disk for
systems and
make a new one. This might even result in a damaged windows
reappearing; but
gives another chance of getting at the repair"


And followed the steps outlinned in
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307545 but when I get to Part 3,
Step2 I'm
asked for an admin password to enter Recovery Console so I can
finish-up. Up
till now I haven't been asked for a password and what should be my
adim pass isn't valid.

When I try system restore from the admin logon, both safe mode and reg
boot,
there isnt any points listed. Which I think is because I cant fiinsh
up in
the recovery console.

Try the link below if the repair option is not available.
"Bert Kinney" wrote:

Hi Kevin,

Did you give System Restore a try?

All About System Restore in WinXP:
http://bertk.mvps.org/index.html

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install by Michael Stevens MS-MVP:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

XP Clean Install by Michael Stevens MS-MVP:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org

"Kevin" wrote
The last few days I've been trying to recover from a curropt
registry.
I can login as Owner w/ Adim rights and have recovered all the
inportant
files and moved them to another partiton on a different harddrive.
Its been
about 2 years since I've done a freash install of XP so I'm
thinking might as
well do it now and start over with a clean install.

I've back-uped email and bookmarks, etc and made a list of all the
little programs I've installed over the last 2 years.

Is there anything else that I should do before repenting,
reformatting, and reinstalling?


.

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