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katy
Hi, before I used the Vista beta cd to boot to install, somehow I created
severe problems with my Sony laptop (part of the drive must've been hidden)
by using Partition Magic and resizing. Upon reboot, I could NOT get XP
back. Options to use last known good configuration, safe mode, none of the
only 4 choices available would work. I then used PM boot cd to fix anything
that might've been damaged and PM did find an Error110 I believe and it said
it fixed it but it froze then. Subsequent uses of PM still didn't fix
anything, all options greyed out, but showed 2 disks (1 harddrive tho with
serious ???NTFS???NTFS????NTFS???etc on disk1; disk 0 was small) so I
gave up & booted with Vista. Miracles began happening and I will be the
first to buy this excellent OS!
First a chkdisk took place, found errors, fixed them. Then a 20 mins. series
of "Replacing invalid security ID with default security ID" for...couple
thousand files! Then the vista splash screen and I was safely on my way to
installing vista.
I thought it would overwrite my current XP but during the install, it
mentioned that 'another version of an OS was detected and the files would be
stored in a file called Windows.old'. Once vista installed, I found the
Windows.old folder, hovering showed 458mb size but viewing properties, the
size is 7.5gb. I would like to move that folder off the internal drive to
an external.
Can this be done without affecting Vista?
TIA for any help........katy
severe problems with my Sony laptop (part of the drive must've been hidden)
by using Partition Magic and resizing. Upon reboot, I could NOT get XP
back. Options to use last known good configuration, safe mode, none of the
only 4 choices available would work. I then used PM boot cd to fix anything
that might've been damaged and PM did find an Error110 I believe and it said
it fixed it but it froze then. Subsequent uses of PM still didn't fix
anything, all options greyed out, but showed 2 disks (1 harddrive tho with
serious ???NTFS???NTFS????NTFS???etc on disk1; disk 0 was small) so I
gave up & booted with Vista. Miracles began happening and I will be the
first to buy this excellent OS!
First a chkdisk took place, found errors, fixed them. Then a 20 mins. series
of "Replacing invalid security ID with default security ID" for...couple
thousand files! Then the vista splash screen and I was safely on my way to
installing vista.
I thought it would overwrite my current XP but during the install, it
mentioned that 'another version of an OS was detected and the files would be
stored in a file called Windows.old'. Once vista installed, I found the
Windows.old folder, hovering showed 458mb size but viewing properties, the
size is 7.5gb. I would like to move that folder off the internal drive to
an external.
Can this be done without affecting Vista?
TIA for any help........katy