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rb2d2 · Sep 25, 2004

OK, I was typing while you were posting....... Wait and see how things go after all the updates and the SP3. It's next to impossible to do anything when Windows is installing a huge amount of updates.

sunny

fishead · Feb 09, 2005

not getting anywhere so went in to manually do ms updates and it shows auto updates isn't even on, but I have it enabled. That activity light just won't stop. So I will see what I can get manually before I turn auto updates on in ms updates.

I think it did do a clean install, it wiped the hd of everything except links to softwares and maybe my photoshop 5 , but everything else is wiped off. It re-installed everything from scratch, all the junk that came with.

Email still fighting me, I think this in ms updates too, it needs something. I could start a clean install but I doubt I get anywhere further.

fishead · Feb 09, 2005

Hold on, somethings not right, it shows the 300 gig hd 2/3 full or more, that means my data is still in here somewhere, it should be almost empty. I will try to see what I can do and if I can't salvage whats lost I will do a complete reformat.

fishead · Feb 09, 2005

I'm in program files, documents and settings and properties is showing 100,00 files and counting and 20 gigs and counting. I don't know if this is good or bad, but if I can salvage my find and replace it will save me money and maybe I can get lost emails. Otherwise I can do a new reformat. I do think this fixed my problems with drives and more.

rb2d2 · Sep 25, 2004

Left click the Start button, then left click Run, when the box opens paste in ... sfc /scannow ... there is a space between c and /. Like I said it may ask for SP3 or your install CD. Since it did a restore or reinstall you may have the I386 folder on your HDD.

dontknow

rb2d2 · Sep 25, 2004

Not sure what your find and replace was like but is there anything you can use here:

http://www.thefreecountry.com/programming/searchandreplace.shtml

dontknow

fishead · Feb 09, 2005

I'll have to try those later. Right now I am moving all my personal folders to my documents. I may keep going with this and see what happens. It would save me a lot of time if I don't have to retrieve everything from another hd. and besides, I may have missed backing up something.

The activity light could be because there is still such a large volumn of data on the hd.

fishead · Feb 09, 2005

If everything is still in here, can I get back all the softwares and my email? I think program files and everything is in this section. Could I just replace program file folder, or maybe move all the missing folders, would I get softwares back?

rb2d2 · Sep 25, 2004

I have no idea, Dave. I've never been in this position with an OS before and don't have a very good handle on just how Windows handles things. Maybe Nightrider would know. I'll email him and have him look at this thread.

wave

rb2d2 · Sep 25, 2004

Dave, when you said you did a System Restore just how did you do that? The System Restore I'm thinking of should not have done all what happened to you. If you used the Utility provided by XP it says you can undo what you have done ...