[pchelpers] Bad weekend

Had a bad weekend .
Came home Sat. night to find my computer not working.
All it did was reboot over and over right after checking the floppy
for a disk. Same thing when trying to go to safemode.
First of all I checked the hardware by unplugging and taking out
everything. That wasn't it.
Then I tried looking at the hard-drive. First I tried to run the
recovery console. It wouldn't accept any of my passwords.
Then I tried a bootdisk with NTFSDOS.EX on it. It mounted
my NTF drive as drive d: and I could now see it. But I couldn't
do anything with it. "Access Denied" (Stupid program)
Then I thought about running chkdsk or scandisk from the drive
itself. I found chkdsk in the Window's folder and typed
chkdsk d: and got. "invalid drive" I guess chkdsk can't see
a mounted NTF drive.
Now I decided to run the Window repair option on the cd. Everything
went smoothly except for one message that said. "This software
is incompatible with XP, it will not be installed." Have no idea
what software that was, it didn't say.

Now that I got windows back up and running I tried "system restore" and got 
this:
"The procedure entry point "RemoteAssistance Prepare System Restore"
could not be found in the dynamic link library WINSTA.DLL"
It occurred to me that I was running XP SP1 and I was now running plain XP. So
I checked my updates. Didn't have any of them any more.
So I updated back to SP1 and now system restore works. But there are no
restore points any longer to restore. I guess that when you do a "window Repair"
it deletes all the old restore points. If you ask me, this sort of defeats the 
purpose
of having a system restore.

So I'm now in the process of redoing all the windows updates. Everything seems 
to
be running fine. Still haven't found what that software was that it wouldn't 
install.
I guess when I really really need that program I will find out what it was.

What I wanted to do was to run "fdisk /mbr" but wasn't sure what it would do to 
a
NTF hard-drive. The only fdisk I could find was on my Dos boot disks. Couldn't
find a newer one on the XP cd or the windows drive itself.

And that was my weekend, How was yours??

Pc


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