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General discussion

Recovery

Feb 1, 2004 11:50PM PST

Yesterday, I used the recovery function for xp on my machine. I took about 30 minutes and them I rebooted. At this point I was asked about sound, time zone, and computer name. The next screen advised to click Finished, I did this but my machine wound not respond? Any ideas, please?

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Re:Recovery
Feb 2, 2004 1:12AM PST

Is this a recovery where you reinstall XP on top of the previous install? Is this a System restore? What was broken that required this action? What does rebooting do?

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Re:Re:Recovery
Feb 2, 2004 1:59AM PST

It was a system recovery. I was forced to do this when the system would not boot up when I tried to get it going initially. As I said I've run the recovery and then I start to get the welcome to Microsoft Windows stuff, but I get to the fial screen thats says"finished" ans when I click on that it freezes

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Re:Re:Re:Recovery
Feb 2, 2004 2:18AM PST

If you have not backed up any needed files as yet, then that would be the first item to tackle. How to do this depends on the way you attempted your System Recovery.

If the data on the drive is of no importance, then the sequence would be:

1) Boot from your XP CD
2) Choose a clean install
3) Choose to install in the directory of your previous install, usually C:\Windows
4) Choose to format that drive in NTFS
5) Install your motherboard and other hardware devices' software.
6) Windows update

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Re:Re:Re:Re:Recovery
Feb 2, 2004 2:22AM PST

Thanks Michael

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Re:Re:Re:Re:Recovery
Feb 2, 2004 4:28PM PST

Your instructions are fine for a clean reinstall, but what if you want to try a repair operation first? I recently tried to go that route and the next screen or two asked for the administrator's password. When I installed Windows originally, I chose not to have a password. When you are in the "repair" mode, if you hit enter when prompted for a password, the repair operation shuts down. I gave up and did a clean install, but I sure would have rather tried "repair" at least once.