Re: XP Home upgrade

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"Donald L McDaniel" wrote:

> On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 00:23:02 -0700, "Bransen"
> <Bransen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >I currently have WIN ME on our home PC. I start to upgrade it today. During
> >the upgrade XP kept looping through the preparation process. In an effort to
> >stop the looping I had it boot from the CD.
> >
> >Now I am getting an error message that "Setup is unable to verify drive C:.
> >
> >If I boot the computer from the C: drive I get the following error: "Window
> >could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
> >\windows\inf\biosinfo.inf"
> >
> >There are files on the harddrive that I want to retrieve. Is this possible
> >at this point?
> >
> >Thanks in Advance
> >
> >Bransen
>
> 1) Are you able to boot the HD on which the files you want to recover
> are?
> 2) Are you able to boot to Windows ME?
> 3) Has the Windows ME partition been deleted yet?
> 4) Are you able to read the file structure of "C:" after booting using
> a Windows ME startup floppy?
>
> If you can answer ANY of the above questions in the "affirmative", you
> should be able to recover the files.
>
> Why you suddenly thought about recovering the files AFTER trying to
> install XP I will NEVER know or understand. Do file recovery BEFORE
> doing any major changes to your HD structure such as installing a new
> OS.
>
> It appears that you are going to have to do a "Clean" installation of
> XP AFTER deleting all partitions using Windows ME fdisk, so first,
> run "scandisk.exe /f", then recover those files IMMEDIATELY.
>
>
> Donald L McDaniel
> Please reply to the original thread.
> If you must reply via email, remove the obvious
> from my email address before sending.
> =======================================================
>

I should have backed up the files prior to doing the upgrade. However, my
impression was that doing the upgrade as opposed t a clean install would
work. Lesson learned.

To answer your questions:

1) no
2) no
3) I am not sure, I don't think so.
4)I havent tried that,I will this morning.

Thanks for you response.


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