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Originally Posted by happycat
this thread makes me sad 
. My condolences for your data loss, Shmoo. Next time, be sure to back up your music and docs to CD before you mess with the Windows installer (hell, you should do that regularly)
. My condolences for your data loss, Shmoo. Next time, be sure to back up your music and docs to CD before you mess with the Windows installer (hell, you should do that regularly)
Originally Posted by janiVI
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try looking through c:\docs and settings\old user name\my documents
try looking through c:\docs and settings\old user name\my documents
I am going to just reformat it right to get rid of the errors and reinstall everything.
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Originally Posted by [Damnit]
cuz windows files r saved on the HD so swapping it to another comp would b pointless, sorry to hear wat went down shmoo. thats y i periodically back up all of my files (yay dvd burner 
) just incase something like this happens :eh:
) just incase something like this happens :eh:taking drive out + putting the HD into another computer, then transfering all those mp3's/misc. files would have saved them
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did u get a message that said"we appologize for the inconvenience but windows could not start properly..ect"? if u did then you could of selected "Last Know Good Configuration" if that didnt work then move on to the recovery console which is that That MS-DOS screen ur talking about..at the propmt you should have typed this chkdsk /r and it would of most likely repaired the problem if that didnt work then you
should of moved on to a repair installation its simple at the first screen you see where it says press R to repair or ENTER to setup you could of pressed enter then F8 to agree to the EULA then the next screen select R to repair...
should of moved on to a repair installation its simple at the first screen you see where it says press R to repair or ENTER to setup you could of pressed enter then F8 to agree to the EULA then the next screen select R to repair...
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Originally Posted by Samson
uh i think you're confused. he mentioned losing all his music mp3's etc...
taking drive out + putting the HD into another computer, then transfering all those mp3's/misc. files would have saved them
Sean
taking drive out + putting the HD into another computer, then transfering all those mp3's/misc. files would have saved them
Sean
yeah if u slave the drive u could save ur info as well
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Originally Posted by ksolo101
did u get a message that said"we appologize for the inconvenience but windows could not start properly..ect"? if u did then you could of selected "Last Know Good Configuration" if that didnt work then move on to the recovery console which is that That MS-DOS screen ur talking about..at the propmt you should have typed this chkdsk /r and it would of most likely repaired the problem if that didnt work then you
should of moved on to a repair installation its simple at the first screen you see where it says press R to repair or ENTER to setup you could of pressed enter then F8 to agree to the EULA then the next screen select R to repair...
should of moved on to a repair installation its simple at the first screen you see where it says press R to repair or ENTER to setup you could of pressed enter then F8 to agree to the EULA then the next screen select R to repair...
It also didn't recognize the windows installation currently on there when I tried to do the repair thing, so I really messed it up.
Originally Posted by ksolo101
yeah if u slave the drive u could save ur info as well
Another question:
I am a little fuzzy to the adding of a hard drive after windows has been installed. I know I have to go into BIOS and make sure everything is working right and then what? Should it format the drive in windows or do I have to do that separately in setup?
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Originally Posted by Shmoo
I am a little fuzzy to the adding of a hard drive after windows has been installed. I know I have to go into BIOS and make sure everything is working right and then what? Should it format the drive in windows or do I have to do that separately in setup?