Ok heres my story and problem.
Just recently I got a new Abit NF7 mobo and Mobile 2600 xp cpu. I used to have a Soyo KT333 board with XP 2000. I swapped those into my brothers case, and put the new mobo and cpu in mine, hooked everything up, and boot her up. After I was able to finally get into the bios, I made sure it was all set up fine, set CD ROM to first boot, and decided to first start up a repair install with my Windows XP cd.
Dont know if this was a bad step, but nonetheless, it finishes, and all I get after it is constant restarts right before it shows the boot logo screen. My HD situation is this, I have 2 drives, one is a 160gb, and one is a 120gb. I partinioned the 160 when I set it up in here as a 40 and a 120. THe 40 was my main C partition, and used for Windows XP and all other program files and what not. The 120 was more of a game install drive and storage, so that I had 2 of them like that, the other 120 as well.
So anyways, after trying to do a repair install on my C drive, and get into windows, it just restarted everytime, so I needed something else to do. I have lots of other drives lying around, such as 40s, 13s, 7s, etc. So I hooked up a 40 GB into my Promise ATA Ultra PCI card, and decided to give it a go. I did this because I know at the Windows XP fresh copy install screen, it shows you all the partitions you have hte option to install it on.
So up came my new drive I attached, while the others remained in tack, and nothing was physically changed with them in relation to their connection to the mobo. I installed WIndows XP onto that drive last night, and when I start up, am given two boot options, to which I select the first, the newest one, and am able to get in.
SO.
I finally get back into Windows XP, where I am able to access MY COMPUTER, and see basically 4 HDS, the new one, the 2 old one (3 partitions).
THIS IS MY PROBLEM THO.
#1. I only want to have 2 harddrives in the end, not some third in the PCI promise card. So somehow I gotta get this one out of the picture.
#2. I cant afford to reformat my 160gb drive, its got a lot of stuff on it that I either would need to backup on DVD, an option I do have, or move to my 120gb drive.
#3. Most of these files are in the MY DOCS folder, which on my old C drive, not this new D drive I recently installed Windows XP, I go to Documents and Settings, then my old user name, to which it says
" " is not accesable.
Access is Denied
I would understand that I guess from a security aspect, since Im logged in on this new partition as an Administrator, maybe I cant get access, But how can I get into this folder, and copy the files to somewhere safe, that I can later burn to a DVD.
Should I go through a DOS command? Is that an option? Recovery console?
And also, if you have 2 partitions basically set up on a drive, is is possible to only reformat one of them, likle lets say I want to just reformat that 40gb partition i had made, and keep its other half the 120, safe. Is that possible? THanks.
Sort of long, but I appreciate.
Just recently I got a new Abit NF7 mobo and Mobile 2600 xp cpu. I used to have a Soyo KT333 board with XP 2000. I swapped those into my brothers case, and put the new mobo and cpu in mine, hooked everything up, and boot her up. After I was able to finally get into the bios, I made sure it was all set up fine, set CD ROM to first boot, and decided to first start up a repair install with my Windows XP cd.
Dont know if this was a bad step, but nonetheless, it finishes, and all I get after it is constant restarts right before it shows the boot logo screen. My HD situation is this, I have 2 drives, one is a 160gb, and one is a 120gb. I partinioned the 160 when I set it up in here as a 40 and a 120. THe 40 was my main C partition, and used for Windows XP and all other program files and what not. The 120 was more of a game install drive and storage, so that I had 2 of them like that, the other 120 as well.
So anyways, after trying to do a repair install on my C drive, and get into windows, it just restarted everytime, so I needed something else to do. I have lots of other drives lying around, such as 40s, 13s, 7s, etc. So I hooked up a 40 GB into my Promise ATA Ultra PCI card, and decided to give it a go. I did this because I know at the Windows XP fresh copy install screen, it shows you all the partitions you have hte option to install it on.
So up came my new drive I attached, while the others remained in tack, and nothing was physically changed with them in relation to their connection to the mobo. I installed WIndows XP onto that drive last night, and when I start up, am given two boot options, to which I select the first, the newest one, and am able to get in.
SO.
I finally get back into Windows XP, where I am able to access MY COMPUTER, and see basically 4 HDS, the new one, the 2 old one (3 partitions).
THIS IS MY PROBLEM THO.
#1. I only want to have 2 harddrives in the end, not some third in the PCI promise card. So somehow I gotta get this one out of the picture.
#2. I cant afford to reformat my 160gb drive, its got a lot of stuff on it that I either would need to backup on DVD, an option I do have, or move to my 120gb drive.
#3. Most of these files are in the MY DOCS folder, which on my old C drive, not this new D drive I recently installed Windows XP, I go to Documents and Settings, then my old user name, to which it says
" " is not accesable.
Access is Denied
I would understand that I guess from a security aspect, since Im logged in on this new partition as an Administrator, maybe I cant get access, But how can I get into this folder, and copy the files to somewhere safe, that I can later burn to a DVD.
Should I go through a DOS command? Is that an option? Recovery console?
And also, if you have 2 partitions basically set up on a drive, is is possible to only reformat one of them, likle lets say I want to just reformat that 40gb partition i had made, and keep its other half the 120, safe. Is that possible? THanks.
Sort of long, but I appreciate.
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