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The machine had win 98 (the original, not 2nd ed.), then he bought a new
mother board and processor only, plugged the same HD and it seemed to work,
kind of. Basically there were so many intermittent errors, like you could
not make a new folder in the save as dialog box, and other weird annoying
stuff like that. At some point someone else ran partition magic and split
his c drive into a c and d drive (c=15 gig, d=5 gig, why that config, I
don't know)
So I come along and convince him buy win xp home upgrade, which he did. So
here is what happened.
I ran the setup from within win 98. It loaded the set up files and
rebooted. Since it was win 98 both the c & d drive were fat32.
When the dos looking setup screen started after boot up, it only asked me if
I wanted to quick format the D drive only, in either fat32 or ntfs, or
complete format in fat32 or ntfs or leave it alone (5 options). Well the D
drive is where I stored all their data like their kids pictures, so of
course I said leave it alone, but it never asked me the same options for the
c drive. So after I said leave it alone, it proceeded to load the OS on the
d drive, never letting me stop or select a folder to store windows in. I
expected the choice of over writing c:\windows or selecting another folder,
but no choices after I said leave it alone. So to make a long story a
little shorter, it loaded perfectly on the d drive and after reboot, the
boot.ini rightfully gave me the option to boot into xp home or "Microsoft
Windows" (funny how it doesn't refer to Win98).
Now silly me decided to edit the boot ini file and delete many of the old
files that I THOUGHT were only needed for win98 (like autoexec.bat, ...)
So I ended deleting too many files off of the c root and now when I
reboot it says NTLR or something like that is missing.
So I was able to boot from the cd and try to repair, but each time it asks
for the administrator password (which I never set one, and I only added mom
and dad as users, not admin), I hit enter and it just brings me to the dos
prompt (d:\windows). Every folder I try to change to says access denied.
Is there a way to load any files back on the c drive and if so which files
do I need. Or can I get into the recycle bin and copy the files back on the
c drive? Right now it says access is denied. My friend and his wife don't
care about
the fact its backwards (windows and programs on d and personal data on c,
there is 15 gig on c and 5 gig on d, so it can work backwards).
Thanks for any help and sorry for the long story.
gv
mother board and processor only, plugged the same HD and it seemed to work,
kind of. Basically there were so many intermittent errors, like you could
not make a new folder in the save as dialog box, and other weird annoying
stuff like that. At some point someone else ran partition magic and split
his c drive into a c and d drive (c=15 gig, d=5 gig, why that config, I
don't know)
So I come along and convince him buy win xp home upgrade, which he did. So
here is what happened.
I ran the setup from within win 98. It loaded the set up files and
rebooted. Since it was win 98 both the c & d drive were fat32.
When the dos looking setup screen started after boot up, it only asked me if
I wanted to quick format the D drive only, in either fat32 or ntfs, or
complete format in fat32 or ntfs or leave it alone (5 options). Well the D
drive is where I stored all their data like their kids pictures, so of
course I said leave it alone, but it never asked me the same options for the
c drive. So after I said leave it alone, it proceeded to load the OS on the
d drive, never letting me stop or select a folder to store windows in. I
expected the choice of over writing c:\windows or selecting another folder,
but no choices after I said leave it alone. So to make a long story a
little shorter, it loaded perfectly on the d drive and after reboot, the
boot.ini rightfully gave me the option to boot into xp home or "Microsoft
Windows" (funny how it doesn't refer to Win98).
Now silly me decided to edit the boot ini file and delete many of the old
files that I THOUGHT were only needed for win98 (like autoexec.bat, ...)
So I ended deleting too many files off of the c root and now when I
reboot it says NTLR or something like that is missing.
So I was able to boot from the cd and try to repair, but each time it asks
for the administrator password (which I never set one, and I only added mom
and dad as users, not admin), I hit enter and it just brings me to the dos
prompt (d:\windows). Every folder I try to change to says access denied.
Is there a way to load any files back on the c drive and if so which files
do I need. Or can I get into the recycle bin and copy the files back on the
c drive? Right now it says access is denied. My friend and his wife don't
care about
the fact its backwards (windows and programs on d and personal data on c,
there is 15 gig on c and 5 gig on d, so it can work backwards).
Thanks for any help and sorry for the long story.
gv