Re: HELP... need to reinstall XP, how to keep my documents?
- From: "kenkcj" <unknownmailbox@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:57:02 -0500
What kind of error message are you getting when you try to boot into
windows? Is it a BSOD or does it say some other error message? If it is
BSOD, post the results of the blue screen to the newsgroup.
Also, what type of xp cd is it? If you do have to do a reinstall and its a
full version, you should be able to just go out and buy a new harddrive to
do a fresh xp install on, and when you first boot into the new windows you
can just pull off any information that you need. There are also recovery
programs that you can use if the information you want is not accessible.
Another option is whether or not you have another computer available. If you
have another desktop available you could pop the hard drive from that
computer into the other computer as a slave drive and do the same. If its a
laptop, there are cheap ($20-$40) enclosures that you can buy that you put a
hard drive into and it turns it into an external drive. Really easy to get
the information off that way and also useful in the future if you end up
getting a new system and don't want to lose all you information, or go
through the time of transferring the data over the network. Plus if you
weren't planning on using the harddrive of the old computer, you can format
then you have an external harddrive for your convenience :-)
Anyways, a little bit of a tangent though, but that should give you a few
alternatives. Let me know if any of this helps.
-Kenkcj
<josephfok@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1187181774.103805.273900@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,
Some of the system files on my wife's laptop is corrupted, XP won't
start at all, not even in safe mode or command prompt. The only way
I've got the machine going is to put in the XP installation CD. It
manage to start up the recovery console, the other option is to
reinstall XP from the CD.
It's running chkdsk at the moment, taken over an hour and sitting at
52%... not a good sign but at least it's still going.
If CHKDSK fail, my only option is to reinstall XP in place of the
existing installation. I got as far as the point where it say
"CAUTION, installing over existing windows may delete all existing
information such as My Documents" This is the part where I cancelled
it.
I would like to back up "My Documents" as there are lots of important
information we'll need. But the only thing I've access to is recovery
console which is like a limited version of command prompt. I can't
even do "copy *.* c:\Backup /s" (or that should had been "xcopy").
There is only a few commands available in Recovery Console. Copy is
there but no wildcard and no sub-dir. I can't copy the files one by
one.....
My questions:
1. If I proceed with re-installing XP on top of my previous XP (no
formatting), what's the chance that I will lose my previous "My
Documents"
2. Is there a way to back up my data since I don't have access to
burner, external drives and xcopy?
3. How about the "RD" command to rename the directory? Which directory
should I rename, "Documents and Settings"?
Any help is appreciated.
.
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