RE: New to XP and confused
- From: virginia strong <virginia strong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 18:56:10 -0700
smoker are you looking up my trouble with sound where are you going to answer
from i am new to this
"Smoker" wrote:
> I'm having trouble getting used to XP. It's very slow at doing anything.
>
> I formatted a new hard drive and XP (OEM full version) had at least one
> hickup during the NTFS install. It didn't seem to behave correctly on the
> desktop so I tried to reinstall it ontop of itself which wasn't any help.
>
> I decided to start over by reformatting C:\ and it deleted everything on my
> primary slave D:\ drive! (In DOS mode or whatever, it was obviously C:\)
>
> Now when I boot I get asked which version I want to use... two XPs are
> listed with identical names and they appear to act identical on the
> desktop/operating environment regardless of which one I choose when I boot.
> Except now one won't boot having lost <windows root>system32\hal.dll
>
> XP is using up 4GB of space even though I've installed no programs except
> for small apps like AntiVir, Spybot, etc.
>
> I went to PC Pitstop and ran the full tests. It said my hard drive was
> running about 1/3 of what it should and it was badly fragmentd. I defragged,
> rebooted and that helped very little. When I click on something the mouse
> cursor turns into the hourglass while I wait for a folder or anything else
> to open. The video is goofy too, sometimes dripping down the screen and
> taking awhile before bringing a window in the back to the front when it's
> clicked on.
>
> MSCONFIG shows only 7 items starting up and I deleted a few Services:
> Infrared Monitor, Task Scheduler, UPS, & Automatic Updates.
>
> The BIOS is the next most recent as the most recent one wouldn't let me
> POST. I installed .NET Framework to get my video card drivers updated. My
> hdd is in DMA 5 mode.
>
> Should I start over and how is that done without erasing everything on my
> other patitions? (I don't trust because it wiped out by D drive earl;ier
> which was claimed to be C.) BTW, with only one hdd in now the sequence goes
> C - E - F drives skipping the D drive that used to be there. Is that normal?
> Trying to find help on Google was futile. Please give me some direction,
> thanks.
>
>
> System:
>
> Win XP home SP2 OEM full version
> ASrock K8 Combo-Z mobo
> Athlon 64 3000 socket 939
> 2x 256MB DDR 2100
> Radeon 9550 128MB video
> Enermax 431W PSU
>
>
>
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