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Registry Woes
Name: rob aiosa Date: January 14, 2003 at 09:46:29 Pacific OS: windows xp CPU/Ram: pentium 4/362
Comment:
I screwed the pooch and need some help digging out of the mess I'm in. I was tring to uninstall Norton Antivirus because it was giving errors after I upgraded to Windows XP. I couldn't uninstall and was getting "Error 1606. Could not access network location..." The NAV site suggested that I delete 55EB66EFB74A75B4D9E26680831FE059 c:documents and settings\all users\desktop. I did this (of course I didn't save a copy of my registry). When I was able to uninstall Norton...after rebooting. Windows was slow and some apps weren't working. I tried a thousand things and decided to reinstall XP (BAD MOVE). Before it "FINALIZED" I get an error that won't allow me to boot (I can get to the choice but I can't boot). I think this is because I deleted the above file from my registry. Does anyone have any advice? Thanks.
Name: anonymous Date: January 14, 2003 at 10:49:49 Pacific
Reply:
format and reinstall
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Response Number 2
Name: Robert Aiosa Date: January 14, 2003 at 12:32:10 Pacific
Reply:
format and reinstall what? i'm sorry as you can imagine, i have no idea what i'm doing.
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Response Number 3
Name: Chuck Date: January 14, 2003 at 12:50:05 Pacific
Reply:
Format your harddrive and reinstall XP, is what he says.
Registry is something to not mess with, unless you know what you are doing.
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Response Number 4
Name: rob aiosa Date: January 14, 2003 at 13:03:57 Pacific
Reply:
yeah, regrettably, i'm a masocist. i don't know why i do these things at 11 o'clock at night. so, you're suggesting that i can reformat my hard drive and reinstall xp. but, i can't seem to get to a prompt. when i try booting into safemode i get a series of directory like lines. this blows! do you have any good sites that can show me how to reformat my hard drive(s)?
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Response Number 5
Name: Jeff_N Date: January 14, 2003 at 13:49:25 Pacific
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