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installing xp
Name: ct99 Date: May 10, 2005 at 10:19:17 Pacific OS: win xp CPU/Ram: PIV
Comment:
I have Win XP service pack 2, i needed to reinstall my OS, so i installed from my orignal cd with service pack 1 on top of the installed xp,( i have re-installed service pack 2) now i can not get access to all my documents that i had on before and i can't get access to the applications that i installed, any suggestions?
It sounds like you have pretty a good mess going on with the OS right now and i doubt that there is any way to recover other than do a complete and clean re-install of the OS. But we can give it a shot, first, what procedure did you use to do the install??
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Response Number 4
Name: OtheHill Date: May 10, 2005 at 11:06:07 Pacific
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I don't use WinXP but if all you did was install over the top the files should still be there. You need to take possesion of them but I don't know exactly how to do that. You may want to use the help files.
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Response Number 5
Name: Roy Hunter Date: May 10, 2005 at 11:19:38 Pacific
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Did you install XP SP1 by booting the system from the CD? You may have formatted over the top of all your documents and applications.
Alternatively, look at My Documents for other user names: the documents may be stored under a different user profile.
If you booted from CD it should have already found a windows installation. Did you select repair on this? If not, it would have created a new folder such as Windows.000 and you should have 2 windows XPs running on a dual boot. If you only have 1 windows folder and no dual boot, then you must have re-formatted the drive and possibly lost all your data.
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