[triadtechtalk] Re: Reinstalling Windows
- From: avbsantos@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: triadtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 07:50:05 -0700 (PDT)
Sandy,
Norton System Works can often mess up any Windows
installation. I've come to the conclusion that it is a
"loveit or hate it" issue with most people. Some can't
live without it, others, like me, won't touch it with a
10 ft. pole.
Did you reinstall Norton's on your new Win98
reinstallation?
Hope you learned from your previously described mistake
so that you will not err anew? If not, you may have to
reinstall again.
Since you mention you have a second hard drive, you
could easily make a copy of your newly reinstalled OS
to it, and if need be, you can then use it to reinstall
it.
You simply start your PC in "Safe Mode".
Now open a DOS window and at the "C:\Windows>" prompt
type "xcopy32 C:\*.* D:\*.* /s/e/r/v/k/f/c/h", sans
quotes.
You will be warned that "..using a DOS command in Safe
Mode can corrupt..." - Ignore it. Do as I typed above,
sans quotes, and you will have ghosted your new
installation to a second hard drive.
You could just as well "xcopy32 C:\*.* [any hard drive
or partition]{filename}\*.* /s/e/r/v/k/f/c/h" , catch
the drift?
For instance, I have a 40 GB HDD partitioned ito 4
equal sizes(4 10GB).
Into E:\Win981 I've copied C:\*.* and then after
applying my preferred tweaks I've made a 2nd copy with
the applied tweaks of C:\*.* into E:\Win982, thus
saving a copy with the tweaks also.
In my case, I would have to "xcopy32 E:\Win981\*.*
C:\*.* /s/e/r/v/k/f/c/h" to restore my system to its
original configuration...and so on.
If you would like addl. info on this process, let me
know and I'll look up a saved (somewhere) link I have
to this process. It works well in Win98 and beats
buying "Ghost", IMO.
BW,
armando. 8)
Don't let the computer bugs bite!
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On Sun, 06 Apr 2003, Sandy Hoff" <sandy@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Subject: [triadtechtalk] Reinstalling Windows
> I'm new to this type of list (believe it or not) and
> hope I don' goof
> this up.
>
> I joined because, like Brian I have been struggling
> with a Packard-Bell
> Model 820 for days now, having had bad luck trying to
> recover a file
> with Norton/Symantec (ie, it didn't find the file and
> screwed up the
> system...............SNIP..........
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