Re: recovering Windows
From: Gabriele Neukam (Gabriele.Spamfighter.Neukam_at_t-online.de)
Date: 11/20/04
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Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 20:05:23 +0100
On that special day, Alexander Baron, (A_Baron@ABaron.Demon.Co.UK)
said...
> first and foremost I want to recover all my data; all my important
> data files have been backed up but I've still got music, tons of
> pictures and other stuff.
Didn't you install Windows again *over* the broken operating system, as
I told you? As long as you don't use "format c:" all data will remain on
the hard disk.
There may be a problem with the registry though, it might be retained as
it had been, and if it is too broken, it will still interfere with your
installation. If Windows still won't run, remove the system.dat and
user.dat files from C:\Windows, and install again.
If you can't do that in DOS, because you don't know the command line
commands, ask an experienced friend, who will probably be able to fix it
for you. Basically it is (after having used a boot disk)
c:
cd \Windows
attrib user.dat -ahs
attrib system.dat -ahs
del user.dat
del system.dat
You cannot copy large amounts of data as long as you are running the
machine in DOS mode, because DOS doesn't know anything about cdrom
burners, and *very* little about networking. You need a working Windows.
Gabriele Neukam
Gabriele.Spamfighter.Neukam@t-online.de
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