I screwed up big time. I got tired of my Son coming over and camping out on my home office computer to access the internet. So I built another computer for the Family room. I figured I'd save some time so I tried to copy the hard disk on my office computer with Norton Ghost. I figured it would be a lot easier to just remove programs and data I didn't want him to access than to spend hours installing all the programs I did want on it.
Both drives got screwed up. I could re-format and re-install everything, but there's just too much data that I need to keep, that's scattered all over the disk. (For instance I've never been able to figure out just exactly where microsoft outlook express keeps my e-mail.)
I put the old drive in my bedroom computer as drive D: and cleaned it up with Norton and Scandisk, then saved some, but not enough of the data. There's a lot of corrupted files on the office drive, and many of them were in the Windows\System directory. It surprised me but it'll still boot in safe mode.
I tried to re-install win98se with an upgrade disk, but it tells me that it couldn't find a qualifying operating system. When I tried it with an OEM disk, it tells me that it won't install because there's already an operating system on the drive.
I don't want to give up on saving as much of the data as possible, but I don't know what to do next. I could probably get the win98 upgrade disk to re-install if I copy the right file to the drive. Or I could probably get the oem disk to re-install if I delete the right file. But I can't remember what they are. Can anyone help?
Both drives got screwed up. I could re-format and re-install everything, but there's just too much data that I need to keep, that's scattered all over the disk. (For instance I've never been able to figure out just exactly where microsoft outlook express keeps my e-mail.)
I put the old drive in my bedroom computer as drive D: and cleaned it up with Norton and Scandisk, then saved some, but not enough of the data. There's a lot of corrupted files on the office drive, and many of them were in the Windows\System directory. It surprised me but it'll still boot in safe mode.
I tried to re-install win98se with an upgrade disk, but it tells me that it couldn't find a qualifying operating system. When I tried it with an OEM disk, it tells me that it won't install because there's already an operating system on the drive.
I don't want to give up on saving as much of the data as possible, but I don't know what to do next. I could probably get the win98 upgrade disk to re-install if I copy the right file to the drive. Or I could probably get the oem disk to re-install if I delete the right file. But I can't remember what they are. Can anyone help?
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