Very Slow - No Backup Disk
Oct 14, 2007
I began having problems, very slow, not sure what she has installed on it, so I wanted to reinstall windows xp( hope this is what I need to do ,to kinda take junk off and fixes whatever the boot up problem is) I have Windows XP Home addition in the box, I bought for my other computer( but it died), there is no backup disk for this computer, I tried to put the disk in and reboot ( thought this would ,reinstall ) ....I am so lost, I didn't understand the instructions from the reinstall page. Can I put the copy of Windows Xp I have bought new on here? or do I have to take one version off ? I know I cam e to one part asking for administratoer password ( which I have no ideal)...What can I do to start this computer all over?
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Jul 18, 2008
I have been looking on Ebay at used/refurbished computers for upgrading from my current and older P4 chip computer. One that I'm looking at says that it has a (legal and genuine version) of Windows XP Pro SP3 o/s installed on the custom built computer, but there's no disk. If I were to purchase a computer like this, and make a back up copy of that installed o/s on my own disk, will there be any difference than if I had received the original installation disk or manufacturer's restore disk?.....or would the installed (and backup) o/s be considered an "unlicensed" copy?
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Jun 25, 2005
I am trying to backup my two drives in windows XP. My media is Jaz. When I select the files to backup it gives me this message. " There is not enough space on the disk. Please insert a different disk" To backup these files it will take approximately 15 2gb disks. Is there a way that windows upon filling one disk will go to another?
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Sep 16, 2010
I have three same laptops with same Windows XPs, and want to burn the one disk image for backup, if the laptop needs to reinstall, i can use the disk image to restore all of initial configurations. how to burn the disk image from Windows XP?
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Dec 19, 2006
I have ghost 2003 and I have heard that it will not do a disk backup if I have a USB keyboard.
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Mar 14, 2010
i just had my satellite fixed and i want to create a disk to backup everything that i have on my computer.it has only the things that came with the computer on it."fresh installation" and i need to know what kind of disk, and how do i know exactly what to back-up? never backed up anything before.do i use a dvd disk? and if i use a regular cd-r will it fit everything on one disk ?
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Nov 13, 2006
my plan was to format & partition hard disk, re-install windows xp sp2.but needed to back-up my stuff, isn't working though, doesn't matter what software i try and back-up with, first disk burns ok but second disk always say's read error back-up failed. (sorry i cant remember the read error number) can anyone help?
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Feb 21, 2010
Create a backup disk for WinXP SP3, my tower does not have a floppy. How do I do it?
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Sep 28, 2006
I have a problem with understanding the differences between these words (actions), when I use Retrospect,( a backup program,) I cannot read any files since the backup file turns into a huge something. When I backup, I mean I copy my files from one drive to an external drive and I can always restore them or copy them to another computer. These are for my files.
When I want to re-install a program, I take the original disk or the zip file I downloaded, stored on CD or another external hard drive.
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Feb 18, 2006
I copied a large directory to a backup drive, preparing to replace the HD on which the directory currently exists.After copying, the "size" of source and target both match:7.14 GB (7,673,318,222 bytes). The number of files and folders match as well. However, the "size on disk" does NOT match.On the source drive:7.24 GB (7,783,518,208 bytes)On the external (target) drive:8.21 GB (8,821,047,296 bytes) Is this a problem? Should I be concerned that the copy was not completed correctly?
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Jul 10, 2005
I recently sent my computer for repair due to virus-related problems. Anyway, the repair person had to reinstall Win XP(Home) from scratch and told me that he had partitioned the drive (and without my permission!) in two: DBackup and CSystem (Backup consists of the files from the previous system). I notice that there is a duplication of files due to this partition. For example, song A would appear twice on Win Media PlayerCDocumentsandSettings/Owner/My Documents/MyMusic/SongA AND Dmydocbackup/MyMusic/SongA). I don't know if there are any duplication of other files yet. Plus, I realised during Disk Cleanup that the system's Temporary Internet Files is located in 'Backup drive' instead of 'System'. Shouldn't this folder be in the other drive i.e. system drive, since Backup is just,well, backup(of the old drive). The WINDOWS folder also appears in both drives.
I've never had partitioned drives so this is causing major headaches for me. If there is a need for me to un-partition my drives to clear the mess, can I do it without re-installing the whole system from the Cd? Sorry it's a long one How many times can you reinstall from the Cd before it cannot be used anymore (I hear there is a limit)
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Sep 17, 2009
When I open my Administratives Tools, "Computer Management console" the "disk defragmenter", the "disk management" are VERY SLOW 2Respond and even freeze (not responding) when I clic on a any of the disk task.I run Win XP SP3 very well so far.. and I had since "few days" problems with a VERY LONG black screen before the logon screen.http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6142_102-0.html?threadID=358991 .first time I resolve it just with a restore back but it begins again.
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Jun 6, 2006
My PC is extremely slow!! it is so slow that even reading a cd makes the PC freeze up and die
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Aug 16, 2008
After restoring a computer and backing up files, once the computer is back up and running should I have a foldercalled "My Backup 1408-08 2353" or should I have a single backup file called backup.bkf? I'm trying to help someone, and they have a folder with the files already available instead of a single backup.bkf file. He wants to restore everything to the original location before the computer restore. How can he do that with the folder he has instead of a backup.bkf file? The restore wizard is asking for a .bkf file to place everything in the original locations, and he doesn't have that.
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Jun 22, 2005
I want to backup my PC for disaster recovery and then do an incremental backup each night to a USB hard drive. I tried Retrospect which came with the USB hard drive. I couldn't get it to work to well. I've been using the MS backup utility. With this software it seems any new email causes changes my large Outlook PST file and the whole
file is backed up again. I've been trying to find backup software which will backup just the changed elements of the pst file and have tried downloading a trial version of
continuity@work from Mobiliti who claim to be able to just backup the changes to a PST file. I left continuity@work running overnight and had to stop it as it was only 50% through the backup this morning. It calls it synchronization rather than backup and from the error messages it seems that it doesn't create a shadow image before backing up as several files were not backed up as they were in use.
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May 28, 2006
I have two IDE hard disks one 40GB=C and the secondary 200GB=D,I have made a copy of documents and setting from C to a new folder backup in drive D.After that this operating finished I preformed format of C and installed from on drive C the MS WIN XP operating system.After the installation the backup FOLDER on drive D, changed to backup FILE without extension.How can I restore my DATA? anyone familiar with this phenomenon
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Aug 15, 2006
basically what im looking to do is delete some old entries that the XP backup utility has created over time that i setup a while ago. Im using the "copy" option.so nothing has been appended or incremental.Im just looking to avoid deleting the setup i got, and maybe just delete a few "copy" backups so that theres not 8 gigs / 1 years worth of backups.i only need about 4 months I forgot about it.cuz i never neaded it. But it looks as if its the only way b/c i cant just delete selected backups.all or nothing?/ anyone know of a better backup utility that is simple and easy on a system BTW?
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Aug 24, 2005
When scheduling a backup using the Windows Backup Wizard, I put in all the scheduling info, but Windows backup never launches. When I look at a scheduled event and click "properties" I get an error message that says "General page initialization failed, etc, etc. (error# 0X80090016)
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Feb 2, 2009
As part of my monthly maintenance checks I ran Disk Clean up and it took so long to complete that it was almost like a drive-defrag. I had to cancel out of it at least once I try it in safe mode because I was sure it was hanging. Only it wasn't hanging, just running slow. The part that took forever was NOT the pre part where it estimates how much space you can free on the disk. That was done in a few minutes. It was when running Disk Clean up and it was doing the "Compress Old Files" part. It took at least 45 minutes. When I went into Safe Mode, as part of Disk Clean Up, I check something that I think was called "Temporary Index File Searching." that I did not see before in Normal Mode. Why would Disk Clean Up take 3-5 times longer to complete than usual?
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Sep 9, 2005
I have an ibm think pad with windows 2000 office professinal , it takes approx 12-15 minutes for start up and free space is 78 percent so I know the problem is not space. I am also unable to do a disk cleanup. I have defraged ok and once the computer has started I can surf easily what could be wrong I have a fair knowledge of computers but nothing about configuration Could someone please help?
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Mar 3, 2007
All of a sudden, my computer is taking about 5 minutes to fully boot up. Before, it took less than a minute to do so. I checked out the Event Viewer and I saw a bunch of disk errors which said, "The deviceDeviceHarddisk 1D has a bad block". D was a partition on my secondary drive. So I performed a chkdsk on it. It found no problems. I used Fix-it Utilities 7 to test it. No problems found. Still taking 5 minutes to boot up and getting the same disk D error events. I swept my system for spyware and malware with Spy Sweeper, Spyware Doctor and Ad-Aware. No problems found. Still taking 5 minutes to boot up and getting the same disk D error events
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Dec 8, 2007
I installed a new HD. When the windows xp screen is on during boot up and the sliding bar is moving across the screen on the 9th/10th pass it seems to hickup/pause for a 1/2 second or so. Since I have had some problems with slow bbot up and excessive disk turning can this be an indication of a problem. Also what is the PC doing while the bar is sliding from left to right?
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May 10, 2005
My friend has a gateway computer, little more than a year old with Win XP on it and complains that the entire computer is moving too slow. I suggested to do a disk-clean up, defrag, etc. first and she tried, but she said that the disk-clean up will just hang and if she tries anything else even to cancel it, the system will freeze up.Any ideas? Is it spyware? Or should she just do a whole reformat?
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Aug 7, 2009
My problem is when I turn on my Dell 5100 I get a floppy disk failure message and it instructs me to hit f-1 which then allows me to boot up. I dont have a floppy disk and this is slowing start up. What can I do to fix this? I went into Bios to try and fix this, nothing has worked. Also when I attempt to start windows media center it crashes.
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Dec 4, 2007
Running XP sp2.Recnetly,dont know it had anything to do with my kid's download,the pc just failed to respond,if not extremely slow.I did a recovery and it was better but not for long.Now I got the "low disk space message"regularly and i did another disk cleanup;funny thing is no matter how many files I deleted and uninstall,the message is coming back and at time with less space on c:
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Dec 26, 2008
For a while now, our computer has been running slow. I'm not sure why, anti-virus isn't picking up any viruses, but it's just dragging so bad. So bad that it will just freeze until it catches up on commands. No idea why.. I don't think I'm running low on memory, the computer isn't that old.Another problem I've been having for the longest time is the disk drives aren't opening. When I push the open button, it makes a sound like it's going to come out, but it never does. My sister somehow got it to open this morning, and it does open randomly sometimes after pushing the button a couple hundred times, but it is not at all dependable and half the time I can't use it at all. Today we just bought a replacement that I have to install, but before wasting the $62 I want to make sure that there's nothing that can be fixed easily. For a while I was able to use the emergency eject (you know, with the pin hole) but even that won't work anymore. Just need some help, maybe it's something as simple as new drivers but I have replaced them a few times to no avail
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Sep 29, 2007
Computer running very slow I have 97 % of my hard drive free...Msconfig has only about 5-6 items booting up.Ran avg and A-square and defrag...
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Dec 13, 2004
Okay, i have posted thios at heaps of forums and they wont give me any useful info. So now its your turn :P I have windows xp cd. But it will not boot up. The bios is correct, and the cd is in there etc. It says press any key to boot, and i do.It detects some stuff then restarts and loads into my desktop Doesnt do anything. I have tried another version of windows xp pro. Same thing.I want to reformat, i need to reformat. This dialer is costing me money.
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Oct 22, 2008
I have a Windowa XP laptop by Gateway, when I copy DVD's everything I do on my computer gets very slow.Is there anything that I can do to speed up computer so that I can run other programs at the same time?
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Jan 9, 2007
My computer is running very slow Since reading some of the other entries I have done some of the quick fixes that were listed such as getting rid of programs not used, disk clean-up and disk defrag but still my computer is lagging.
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Sep 12, 2010
My computer has been quite slow this past few days and my friend said low disk space can reduce a computer's performance. I installed Windows XP in a 20GB partition and it has 3GB free space left.
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