Re: System recovery - big mistake made!

From: The knitted bloke (Theknittedbloke_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/04/05 

Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 14:01:04 -0800

Thanks for your reply. Yes, I have an Advent PC with XP home edition as the
operating system. From memory, there are three options in the recovery menu
and I elected for the least severe (reinstall operting system without
affecting other work or files). The PC boots up slowly, but the screen
resolution is very low (4 bit colour quality, etc) and can't be changed via
the control panel. There are multiple error messages when it all loads up
and I key in my password. Then when I try to copy my work (which I can see)
to discs - CD, floppy or DVD - it won't allow me to do it. There's no drag a
drop facility, for example, and it won't allow me to individually save word
documents to a floppy. The frustration is that all the content is there, but
the PC is effectively useless. I have tried saving work in safe mode to
other discs, but it doesn't like that either. I have thousands of hours of
work on the PC. Any hope?

"Harry Ohrn" wrote:

> Can you tell us more about how you did the System Recovery? what type of
> disc was it and how did you perform the recovery? How do you know your work
> is still on the PC? Which settings are you having trouble with?
>
> --
>
> Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
> www.webtree.ca/windowsxp
>
>
> "The knitted bloke" <Theknittedbloke@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:FCFD9F40-C3CD-4042-A2FA-658FCD3C993B@microsoft.com...
> | I do hope someone can help. I have done a very silly thing. When I went
> to
> | turn on my PC, I had left a floppy disc in drive A. The PC came up with a
> | message "unable to start NTLDR" and I assumed there was a major problem.
> So
> | I ran the system recovery disc. All my work is still on the PC, but the
> | settings are all to pot. Is there an easy way of undoing this silly
> mistake
> | or of reestablishing the settings I had previously in place? Help greatly
> | appreciated!
> |
>
>
>

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