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Help. Want to get files off of hard drive.

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Theguynextdoor

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Well I had this problem here: http://forums.anandtech.com/me...4&threadid=1444210

So I got another hard drive and stuck it into my computer and it's working fine. I can see the other drive
and access all it's files. But I don't know where to go to get them. I'm at the local disk of E: which is the HDD with a fail OS. But now I don't know how to navigate around to get them.

All the files I want are in a folder on the desktop on that HDD.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
 
Yeah, if it's WindowsXP, go to E: ---> "Documents & Settings" ---> Select the folder corresponding to the username you used ---> "Desktop"
 
You might just need to take Ownership of the whole \Documents and Settings\username folder that contains that Desktop folder. If you have Simple File Sharing disabled, then browse to E:\Documents and Settings\username, right-click the folder, and do like I illustrated here for my user account named mechBgon:

Link

Checkmark the Replace owner on subcontainer and objects and give Ownership to an account on your current WinXP installation.

If you have WinXP Home Edition instead of Professional Edition, I believe your only way of getting at this stuff is to boot in Safe Mode. Good luck 🙂

edit: to disable Simple File Sharing, go to Control Panel > somewhere > Folder Options.
 
Originally posted by: mechBgon
You might just need to take Ownership of the whole \Documents and Settings\username folder that contains that Desktop folder. If you have Simple File Sharing disabled, then browse to E:\Documents and Settings\username, right-click the folder, and do like I illustrated here for my user account named mechBgon:

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/m...gon/NTFS_OWNERSHIP.gif

Checkmark the Replace owner on subcontainer and objects and give Ownership to an account on your current WinXP installation.

If you have WinXP Home Edition instead of Professional Edition, I believe your only way of getting at this stuff is to boot in Safe Mode. Good luck 🙂

edit: to disable Simple File Sharing, go to Control Panel > somewhere > Folder Options.
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Who da man! 😀 :thumbsup:
 
OMG I'm in. Ok. Is there any way to fix my installation of WinXp on the other drive? Because I don't want to go through the trouble of reinstalling it and then having to register everything again and making sure they let me reregister it. (IE PC-cillian) and get everything that I lost.

Thanks a hell of a lot mech and jpeyton.
 
What was wrong with the other WinXP installation, that you had to do this rescue maneuver in the first place? If it's viruses or something...?

Anyway, you might be able to get it repaired like this:

1) download the full Service Pack 2 installifier from yonder and burn it to CD and/or just copy it to the hard drive that you're rescuing stuff off of, so it's right there.

2) Put the hard drive into the computer it belongs in, and unplug the network cable. Why, because if you do this Repair procedure you'll end up with a "raw" WinXP install that's easy prey for worm attacks.

3) Begin WinXP Setup from the CD-ROM.

4) When you're first asked if you want to do a fresh Windows installation or a Repair, do not choose Repair. Act as if you're going to do a fresh install.

5) WinXP Setup gets going, you agree to the license agreement, and then it looks at the existing partitions on the drive and asks where to install? and you say C:\ and it looks and sees "Hey, there's a Windows installation in C:\WINDOWS, want that repaired?" and you say

[ Picard ] Make it so. [ / Picard ]

6) After the Repair-mode install is done, install your Service Pack 2. That patches the worm holes, enables the Windows Firewall, and gets DirectX 9.0C installed. I'd also disable System Restore and enable Data Execution Prevention for all programs (see Secure Is Good link in my sig for that and some other security suggestions). After this, you can plug in your network cable again.

7) Take a snack break while Defrag runs 😀

8) Install your motherboard's chipset drivers, reboot, then install your video drivers and other drivers.


This should adopt all your programs and stuff. I would still do a completely-fresh install if it were me, since there can be weirdness after doing this way, but you can see how it turns out and then decide. Good luck 🙂
 
There were no viruses or anything on the drive. It had SP2 on it alreayd had no problems with spyware and such due to SP2 and Teatime. It was perfectly clean. I knew how to maintain my computer really well (thanks to people like you :beer: )

But when I installed an additional stick of ram it ran fine...until I rebooted, the following file was messed up:

I was at a BLACK screen instead of a blue screen and it said this file was messed up and it could be repaired in the repair utility.

<Windows root>\system32\hal.dll.

I fixed it using the windows repair utility. But after that this was messed up: same scree too.

windows\system32\config....etc. can't remember it all.
 
I see. Maybe post the specs of the problem system as it stands now, including the details on what brand/model of RAM, mobo and power supply, because the root problem might be that the new RAM needs more voltage, or that the PSU got pushed a little too far, etc.

Anyway, the Repair routine I mentioned ought to get the system back on its feet if an underlying problem doesn't torpedo it along the way. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Theguynextdoor
the systeem

A64 3200 Newcastle
K8V deluxe
My personal RAM is http://www.newegg.com/app/View...=20-145-467&amp;depa=1

RAM I stuck in which I now know is defective: http://www.newegg.com/app/view...=20-223-009&amp;depa=1

80 gig SATA drive. Is the main one that got the problem

Now Im using an old 30 gig with the same computer.

video is a 9800pro 256mb edition.
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What memory voltage are you using, or is it still down on AUTO (which usually means 2.5V)?
 
Crank it back up to 2.7V :evil: Voltage-starved RAM won't do your Windows installation effort any favors.
 
Doesn't matter pulled out the cheap ram. (not mine, I was actually testing it to see if it was bad. Didn't think my answer would come at such a big price)

Gonna stick with the good stuff.
 
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