Killed My Pc

[jaxx]

right, reporting in from my old mans computer on the fact that ive killed mine!

been having a few various niggles with it over the last month or so and was advised by a couple of folks to first use the system restore rollback, which i did and to no avail.

and if that didnt work then run my system repair disc that came with the machine....

so i did that, and now the PC wont boot past the initial 'black screen' system test!

giving me a message of NTLDR is compressed and to hit CTRL-ALT-DEL to restart... which just sends me round in an endless loop??

i can still run the the repair disc which has three options..

1) repair

2) backup all docs and reinstall XP

3) format disc and reinstall XP

i have run option 1 and 2 to no avail!

any help much appreciated!

[Moffmo]

Mate, i got this boot disk thats not windows XP and that worked superbly! I booted it up, it runs a desktop thingie with tools etc... And i ran ChkDsk.exe

Seemed to do the job.....

Ill try and find it for you, but you have to be able to burn it to CD

[jaxx]

well ive got the option of me dads PC if anything needs burning

[Moffmo]

Wheres JJ when ya need her ehh?

If you have a number txt her and get her fella(david) to send you the link..

if that dont hell sort you out, hes helped me on endless occasions :D

[Chappers]

Is this with SP2?...

I had simillar problems.. Ended up wiping the lot and re-installing.. :(

[vmail]

stick the harddrive in another PC, transfer all your !Removed! and stuff, then reinstall XP

[Chappers]

stick the harddrive in another PC, transfer all your !Removed! and stuff, then reinstall XP

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[vmail]

you may need to change the jumper in the drive, best to boot to the bios, plug in the drive, then tell the bios to auto detect, the finally save(usually F10)

[jaxx]

ta vmail

in the process of either using my dads PC to back up or bunging a second hard disc in my own machine as i need the extra space as it is!!!

load OS onto that to start from scratch and set orignal drive as a slave to carry all my docs across and then wipe clean the old drive....

just fired up my trusty rusty old laptop to keep me connected for now!

[vmail]

DVD+r/-r are 17p each now, after you have sorted the PC, mirror it to some DVD's (just like system restore)

[jaxx]

good thinking batman

was gonna get a DVD writer for backup purposes anyway ;)

[vmail]

batman?

[JustJJ]

:P hehee any luck yet Rob?

hehehe 'good thinking batman' was what robin used to say ;)

[jaxx]

ignoring it at the min

gonna get a second drive and start ot from scratch. i need the space anyway

[jaxx]

fitted new hard disc so its going again and had XP installed on there

old drive running as a slave so i could drag my docs across

BUT.....

access denied on the old my docs folder???

any suggestions?

[GT4 BOOSTER]

try booting into safe mode , see if you can access them that way , cant see why access was blocked in the first place though.

[~Rach~]

Awwwwwww Rob!

Thanks for yesterday btw, luckily mines working fine now. Think it broke in sympathy for yours lol

[vmail]

your <I thought I could get past the swearing filter - what a sad muppet I am eh?>ed,unless

if you have about 2GB, re-install XP (different directory)

then take ownership of the files, there is another quicker way but its not legal

[jaxx]

safe mode didnt work :(

how do i take ownership of files???

both drives have XP on them

new drive - XP ok

old drive - XP corrupt

[vmail]

right click on directory, properties, security, advance, owner

select an owner, tick replace on subcontainer and objects then click ok

I think... Not used XP for a long time

[jaxx]

nope....

didnt work

[vmail]

go into the security settings, add yourself and give yourself full control, you may see other users like S946874-45645-456456-46, just ignore them, they are from the old PC

are you logged in as any administrator?

if the filename are green then it will be bit harder to get the files

[Moffmo]

its becuase you had a NTFS partion and the old docs folder would have been in your name....

So when you logged in on XP you unlocked your "my documents" but becuase you are login on the OTHER XP it sees you as a different person...

[jaxx]

i am logged as admin, dunno about changing security settings though?? is that just on the user accounts bit???

the old hardrive labels are blue...

[jaxx]

its becuase you had a NTFS partion and the old docs folder would have been in your name....

So when you logged in on XP you unlocked your "my documents" but becuase you are login on the OTHER XP it sees you as a different person...

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thats what i was thinking!

bugger

cant i just hack into it