I have a 3 year old Dell 4700 with XP Pro. I want to reload XP using the XP instalation disk I have. Anyone give me a step by step? I have all the files I want to keep on an external hard draive.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI would point out two things about a re-installation: Contrary to many concerns, a Reinstall DOES NOT change your computer except for replacing files with the original Windows installation files--your desktop and menus and Documents and Settings all stay the same. This may or may not have an effect on some installed programs--I have reinstalled many many times and it seems with XP, I've never had any problem
2. Reinstall is often an easy way to fix a nagging problem that there seems to be no solution to--you can do it easily in about a half hour with a minimum of effort as long as you have your original CD and product code AND you have bootable CD drive which most are--you can test it easily by changing the boot order to the CD and inserting your Windows CD to see if it starts booting.
i need help tp reformat my computer please show me step by step.
View 1 Replies View Relatedcan somebody explain to me as detailed as possible,about how to edit your Registry.I know you can really mess things up if you don't do things properly,it would be greatly appreciated.I am in need to access it to stop messenger from starting at boot/running in the backround.I went within windows messenger it self and unchecked the boxes(run windows messenger when Windows starts and allow messenger to run in backround)BUT IT STILL RUNS IN THE BACKROUND?I also have other things I need to deal with by editing my Registry.Just unsure exactly HOW TO BACK THE REGISTRY AND EDIT IT??I keep NOTICING (msmsgs.exe)listed in my running processes when I pull up task manager.
View 14 Replies View RelatedAfter almost 4 hours (3 hours of desperate trial and error, 45 minutes of chkdsk) I got my computer to reboot after a mup.sys hang. After using my laptop to research it, I learned that the hang could be caused by a lot of things. So now that I've got it going again, what's my next step?One of the last things I did was take out the new USB 2.0 PCI card, thinking that could be it even though I had been using it for 3 days with no problems during reboots or otherwise.The system crashed sometime last night, possibly while Ghost was trying to do a backup. I backup to a USB 2.0 external drive, again pointing to a possible conflict with the card. (I should note that I just realized Ghost hasn't actually done a backup in two weeks because it thinks the disk is full. Would have been nice it if had notified me of that when it happened.)
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View 5 Replies View RelatedBeen working on a friends Gateway P4 'puter after he had a disaster with a virus. Formatted the drive and installed the OS then proceeded to install all his apps and utilities. Left him about a week ago to research what kind of drive for him to purchase to install as Primary slave intending to use it for Acronis backups and other stuff. He called me and said he could not get XP to boot. Well, today I went to his place and turned the system on. Got through the normal startup screen and then the log on screen came up telling me to click on the user name... THERE WAS NO USER NAME SHOWN. My experience with XP is limited but I did try F8 and went through attempts to recover with no joy. Finally decided to just reinstall the OS. Now I gotta go through all the tweaks to get it up and running. Is there a way to get around the user name access without the drastic step of reinstalling the OS? What the heck could have caused this?
View 2 Replies View RelatedMy WinXP Pro SP2 P4 desktop takes a very long time to boot. The time seems to be spent in a routine MBA (Managed Boot Agent) V4.30, which is provided by LAN Works Technology Co. of 3M Corp. The process identified is a boot execution executive named PXE V2.20. Since there is no LAN present on which a boot file is located, the process completes with "No boot file found." The booting process proceeds with the OS file located on the C drive. Is there a way to safely eliminate the MBA step?
View 2 Replies View Relatedwhen i try to run a checkdisk on my c: drive xp schedules a scan for the next restart. when i restart the scanning stops at 0% in step 4/5. the computer is stuck from then on and i need to power off and restart, and then skip the scan (which the computer tries to do again).now when i boot normally, afgter the xp splash screen, the screen goes blank for a long time (maybe up to 10-15 minutes sometimes) before xp loads and i can use the computer.
View 14 Replies View RelatedWhile I wait to see if I get an answer on how I can fix my current problem, thought i would check on how I might completely relaod computer, just in case I don't get a fix. I have a HP Pavilion P3, it originally came with Windows ME, at a later date i installed an upgrade to Windows XP Home Edition. I have the original 3 disks (2 ea system recovery, and 1 application recovery), I also have the original XP Home upgrade disk with product key. I have already tried this once but it would not work-- I inserted disk 1 (hp system recovery) and booted the computer, after only a second or two the screen went blue and informed me the hard drive could not be found. I thought maybe it was because I was not using ME, so I installed the upgrade disk and booted. It began doing its thing then after loading several files it informed me of a windows error and it shut down windows.
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View 7 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to make a Windows XP Install CD that would have all drivers already installed? I have seen this feature on some notebooks like Fujitsu Siemens and Sony VAIO, they had all the drivers preinstalled. Is there a way to make such CDs my self.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI tried to install a operating system disk xp pro which was supposed to be an unnattended install, but I wish I had attended now, I dont know what its done but when I came back it had a message 'setup cannot copy the file irmk7w2k to skip this file press escape to quit setup press f3 to retry press enter' I decided to quit setup and run my own os disk again I have used this disk plenty of times but this time it came up with the same message that I got on the other disk. So I thought something had been left on the harddrive so I put my wipe clean cd in to clean the hard drive and then I formatted and I was still getting the same message on setup. How can this be happening and how do I fix it? Thanks. I have an os on now but it is corrupted and I cannot get online there are plenty of files missing because I pressed skip this file plenty of times just to get some sort of operating system on. I really need help I am typing this on another pc.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI Have a dell inspiron 8200 and i reinstalled windows from another dell computers windows disk. When its starts up its goes to the windows start when it starts to go to the log in part. The video goes all crazy and i can't see anything when i start it in safe mode its fine.
View 6 Replies View RelatedOriginally, the computer had Windows XP but when the operating system failed and I had no disk I tried to install Windows XP Pro using a disk I purchased.
These are the error messages I have been getting:
Windows Setup: Unknown Disk - there is no disk in this drive. A problem has been detected and Windows has shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed
I used a �Boot CD� and got the following information:
Using fdisk - "No fixed disc present"
Create a backup disk for WinXP SP3, my tower does not have a floppy. How do I do it?
View 8 Replies View RelatedCurrently i have 2 hard drives, a 40gb and a 160gb. I have winxp on the 40 bg (single c: partition) as well as some files, and data and music on the 160 gb (about 50 or so gb full one partition-F. I want to take the F drive, the bigger one, and put it in my new computer. also, i want to install winxp PRO on the F: drive. so,can i add another partition on there now (so i dont lose files- i have insufficient room to backup F to C) and install xp pro, can i move the harddrive later and install xppro? basically, i want to lose no data and am unsure i have enough room to backup F, is there a way or program i can use to add a nother partition to an already formatted disk,what is the best way to do this?
View 14 Replies View RelatedThinkpad T41 with a OEM xp pro installed. This laptop is no longer usable, I would like to take the hard drive installed and install in another T41 with similiar configuration. I would assume XP will recognize the new laptop and cause problems.
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View 6 Replies View Relatedmy little bro wants me to but him a new hard drive for his laptop for his birthday. He does not have the windows xp disk that came with the machine. Is there I way I can put his current version of windows on a disk, or back it up some other way?
View 13 Replies View RelatedI'm having problems with my window XP opening. I have taken my hard drive out and put in an enclosure, and backed it up. Now I'm trying to determine the product key to reinstall it with the rescue disk.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have xp sp2 installed on a 17 GB partition. c: properties says I have used 9.8GB and7Gb free. I have 9 folders and a few tiny files on C: and very few programs installed.If I add the sizes of 9 folders (Windows-3.09 GB Program files-1GB) I only get about 5GB.What or where might the other 4 GB be?
View 8 Replies View RelatedCan someone please tell me if I can use a Windows XP Professional disk to repair a Windows XP Home Edition unmountable boot volume? My sister-in-law's Dell Dimension 8400 is getting that error when she starts the PC. She can't locate the disks that came with the PC and I only have an XP Pro disk. I repaired my laptop using recovery console about a year ago but that is XP Pro also.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to fix my friends Hp and I usually know what im doing. But here I have no idea what to do. I tried going into the bios to change the boot order to cd to format and I can't. Can anyone tell me what to do.I changed out his hard drive with mine and it does nothing. just posts and goes to a black screen instead of trying to boot and blue screening as it usually do when you change hardrives between two computers.Changed the Ide cables no luck.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI've backed myself into a corner, now I need to pick your brains to get out of it.
OS is XP Home sp2. Stopped booting,with error message about missing files,e.g.windowssystem32cp_437.nls.
Repair did not work, so I ended up reinstalling XP, but in another folder, as I didn't want to lose settings etc.
In "windows2", when I try to enter My Docs., etc on "windows1" it says
"access denied". How do I get at "favourites, Docs etc on "windows1" I have heaps of genealogy files etc that I cant access.
My PC has Windows XP and Linux operating together with GRUB boot loader. I have to reload XP, and when I insert windows OS CD, it encounters GRUB boot loader and hangs.How to reload XP... i.e. how to get past GRUB boot loader.
View 1 Replies View RelatedThis is symbol is showing instead of my line but to the left.Error loading C;windowsNVMCTRAY.DLL This specified module could not be found. After reloading Windows XP on a Dell optiplex GX270.
View 2 Replies View RelatedHad to format my hd, XP home edition was preloaded, only have a reload disc which does not sem to reload!I have the serial number for the XP which was loaded originally.What can I do? I tried to load XP pro from a system disk, it goes so far then stops.
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