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My power supply blew and fried my C drive. I bought a new power supply and installed Windows XP on an old spare drive and the computer was OK. The spare drive was too small so I bought a WD 120 GB drive and installed Windows XP on it and everything was still fine
I wanted to try to recover the fried C drive. so I wouldn't have to reinstall my programs and upgrades. I took the circuit board off the fried drive and replaced it with another from a similar drive. All the files were visible so I quickly used Drive Works Copy Commander to copy the fried drive to the 120 GB drive
When I booted the 120 GB drive the initial Windows screen looked fine, but when the desktop came up the screen was illegible. Although I can see the icons, there is too much flicker and fuzziness to tell what they are. I tried booting from the drive that had been fried and got the same result. I put in the old, too small, spare drive and everything was fine
I know many would say start fresh, but since I have "recovered" the files that were on the fried drive, I'd really like to be able to use them rather than start from scratch. I can access the files from DOS or from the old, too small drive
How can I fix the video problem
 
dale said:
My power supply blew and fried my C drive. I bought a new power
supply and installed Windows XP on an old spare drive and the
computer was OK. The spare drive was too small so I bought a WD
120 GB drive and installed Windows XP on it and everything was
still fine. I wanted to try to recover the fried C drive. so I
wouldn't have to reinstall my programs and upgrades. I took the
circuit board off the fried drive and replaced it with another from a
similar drive. All the files were visible so I quickly used Drive
Works Copy Commander to copy the fried drive to the 120 GB drive.
When I booted the 120 GB drive the initial Windows screen looked
fine, but when the desktop came up the screen was illegible. Although
I can see the icons, there is too much flicker and fuzziness to tell
what they are. I tried booting from the drive that had been fried and
got the same result. I put in the old, too small, spare drive and
everything was fine. I know many would say start fresh, but since I
have "recovered" the files that were on the fried drive, I'd really
like to be able to use them rather than start from scratch. I can
access the files from DOS or from the old, too small drive. How can I
fix the video problem?
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Have you tried just installing the latest Video Card driver and adjusting
the settings?

What does it look like in Safe Mode?
 
I tried safe mode several times earlier and after printing a screen full of text it would hang and I would reboot. I tried one more time and just let it set. After a very long time, Windows came up in safe mode like it should. Haven't fixed the problem yet, but I should be able to do so now

----- Shenan Stanley wrote: ----

dale wrote
My power supply blew and fried my C drive. I bought a new powe
supply and installed Windows XP on an old spare drive and th
computer was OK. The spare drive was too small so I bought a W
120 GB drive and installed Windows XP on it and everything wa
still fine. I wanted to try to recover the fried C drive. so
wouldn't have to reinstall my programs and upgrades. I took th
circuit board off the fried drive and replaced it with another from
similar drive. All the files were visible so I quickly used Driv
Works Copy Commander to copy the fried drive to the 120 GB drive
When I booted the 120 GB drive the initial Windows screen looke
fine, but when the desktop came up the screen was illegible. Althoug
I can see the icons, there is too much flicker and fuzziness to tel
what they are. I tried booting from the drive that had been fried an
got the same result. I put in the old, too small, spare drive an
everything was fine. I know many would say start fresh, but since
have "recovered" the files that were on the fried drive, I'd reall
like to be able to use them rather than start from scratch. I ca
access the files from DOS or from the old, too small drive. How can
fix the video problem
Click to expand...

Have you tried just installing the latest Video Card driver and adjustin
the settings

What does it look like in Safe Mode
 
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