Re: System recovery - big mistake made!

From: Harry Ohrn (harry---_at_webtree.ca)
Date: 01/05/05 

Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:37:00 -0600

You have a lot of work on your PC but haven't backed it up already? From now
on make certain you do.

In order to work with your current files you will likely have to take
ownership of them. Check this link out for instructions on how to do that
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

Now get your important data copied to CD or DVD. For that you might need to
install third party software if you can't get XP's software to work for you.
Right click your CD/DVD Burner device and select Properties->Recording Tab
and check the box to Enable recording on this device. then see if you can
copy the files to CD. XP can not write to DVD without additional software.
If you don't have third party CD/DVD writing software you can install the
freeware program CDBurnerXP Pro. It is a good product and can burn to either
CD or DVD http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

An excellent option if you can afford it is to use third party imaging
software like Acronis TrueImage or Symantec Ghost. That way you can burn an
image (exact copy but in a image file format) to CD or DVD. You then have
all your current data safely backed up and can mess around with the system
to your heart's content.

Once you've safely tucked away your important work I'd suggest that you do a
fresh install of XP and start over again. 

-- 
Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp
"The knitted bloke" <Theknittedbloke@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in 
message news:6717579C-B7A6-4182-96E2-69E495DECDA7@microsoft.com...
> 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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