Re: Last known good configuration
- From: "Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:46:27 -0600
Egan wrote:
> What do you mean "the computer is FUBAR"?
> When you say "copy what you can off", do you mean copy as much as
> you can from the corrupted harddrive containing Windows XP Home
> Editon operating system including the data and programs onto a new
> harddrive? Does "copy what you can off" and "ghost it" mean the
> same thing?
*If* the steps up to that point fail - then you are not going to get the
computer to boot by any simplistic means - perhaps a repair install might
work - but probably not.
Whatever hard drive you are about to have to format and reinstall on - you
probably want stuff off it - so copy off what you can. You can do this many
ways - like booting from an Ultimate Boot CD for Windows or another version
of the Bart PE CD.. etc.. If it was FAT32 - you have even more options.
The "ghost it" is a reference to Symantec/Norton Ghost - making an image of
the entire drive/partition - so you can copy your stuff out of the image
file(s) it creates later and you are sure not to miss anything that way.
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