ok, heres the situation. i was playing a game online, and my computer suddendly crashed. when i rebooted it, it said a file was missing (i forgot which one) and i couldnt get into windows. i tried to repair it w/ the xp cd, but i didnt know how to. after being frustrated for a few hours i decided to re-install xp. i left the original windows directory there and installed the new os in a windows2 directory, if that matters. my question is; is there anyway to get my user account back? i would hate to do everything over again, thanks in advance
Help! problems w/ XP
- Thread starter svtour
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Nope. Can't move the user from one OS to another.
Try booting back into the original after running chkdsk.
Try booting back into the original after running chkdsk.
it said that it was missing "windows/sys32/config" i tried to copy it over, but it said is was in use. would safemode work?
svtour,
you probably fixed it by reinstalling , but xp is very picky about hardware problems.
It tells you files are missing but they really aren't, evidenced by later being able to boot up fine without having to replace any files.
I would suggest that you strip your hardware piece by piece and try to boot up in safe mode each time until you finally get to boot up or down to the bare essentials (hdd, cpu, memory).
Even then, no sure thing.
This is what i don't like about XP. When it has trouble, it won't let you back in to fix it. Often forces a reinstall and then the reinstall may give one trouble in that XP has known to disallow an install that was previously there. Says files are missing or can't be found, etc.
which is bs.
you probably fixed it by reinstalling , but xp is very picky about hardware problems.
It tells you files are missing but they really aren't, evidenced by later being able to boot up fine without having to replace any files.
I would suggest that you strip your hardware piece by piece and try to boot up in safe mode each time until you finally get to boot up or down to the bare essentials (hdd, cpu, memory).
Even then, no sure thing.
This is what i don't like about XP. When it has trouble, it won't let you back in to fix it. Often forces a reinstall and then the reinstall may give one trouble in that XP has known to disallow an install that was previously there. Says files are missing or can't be found, etc.
which is bs.
Could you get into safe mode?
Did you go to system recovery console? Tried restoring the file from there? Ran chkdsk /f from there?
Most likely one of these will resolve your issue.
When you boot to your XP CD when you see "windows is starting setup"-or something like that, hit the 'R' key to enter SRC.
Did you go to system recovery console? Tried restoring the file from there? Ran chkdsk /f from there?
Most likely one of these will resolve your issue.
When you boot to your XP CD when you see "windows is starting setup"-or something like that, hit the 'R' key to enter SRC.
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