i have a problem that needs fixing VERYfast

ok guys thank you for all the ideas. in the end, he decided that to save some grief, i should wipe the hd andmake it a new computer. problem: two files were not copied into windows when i installed it. unknown cause... i have tried to install those programs but for some damn reason its not recognizing the cd drives any more. ill try to look up the programs that are erroring/missing, and ill get back to you guys.

thanks for all your help, matt
 
lovely? said:
ok guys thank you for all the ideas. in the end, he decided that to save some grief, i should wipe the hd andmake it a new computer. problem: two files were not copied into windows when i installed it. unknown cause... i have tried to install those programs but for some damn reason its not recognizing the cd drives any more. ill try to look up the programs that are erroring/missing, and ill get back to you guys.

thanks for all your help, matt
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It's probably a bad disk. Almost every Linux disk I have tried on my comp has been bad. :rolleyes:

~Jordan
 
lovely? said:
ok guys thank you for all the ideas. in the end, he decided that to save some grief, i should wipe the hd andmake it a new computer. problem: two files were not copied into windows when i installed it. unknown cause... i have tried to install those programs but for some damn reason its not recognizing the cd drives any more. ill try to look up the programs that are erroring/missing, and ill get back to you guys.

thanks for all your help, matt
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You don't have to wipe the entire drive to correct a Windows problem. You simply delete the current installation if you don't plan on a repair install. The idea of using Trend Micro shareware is an easier way to remove any pre-existing antivirus program and simply uninstalling that afterwards. If you suspect a bad install of Windows simply delete the current or try the repsir install method outlined at http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
 
PC eye said:
You don't have to wipe the entire drive to correct a Windows problem. You simply delete the current installation if you don't plan on a repair install. The idea of using Trend Micro shareware is an easier way to remove any pre-existing antivirus program and simply uninstalling that afterwards. If you suspect a bad install of Windows simply delete the current or try the repsir install method outlined at http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
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that was my first thought, but then when i tried it was having problems finding administration profiles, and having problems with recognizing ITSELF and really wierd stuff like that, so i decided to get a program that would do a single-pass zero write-over and delete all data. (i did this on one hd, and not on the other which had important data, hence saving most of the data)
 
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