About a month ago, I was using win98 SE and I decided to upgrade to winXP. After completing the installation, I tried to install Earthlink, and that didn't work. AOL Instant messenger didn't work either. So i formatted, and installed win98 SE again. Then last week, I got a friend's copy of winXP and installed it. Again, the same problems occured. And this time, windows media player didn't work along with the other programs.
Today, I formatted the drive, and installed win2000. I then installed winXP, and still, barely any programs work. This installation was different however, because the computer asked me to format my main partition as either NTFS or FAT32. I chose NTFS, and formatted and installed XP. I have another partition on that same drive (D, and after XP was installed, i went to drive D, and the files that I have been desperately saving for the past years seem to be gone. Any suggestions on recovering them? PLEASE HELP. thanks.
Today, I formatted the drive, and installed win2000. I then installed winXP, and still, barely any programs work. This installation was different however, because the computer asked me to format my main partition as either NTFS or FAT32. I chose NTFS, and formatted and installed XP. I have another partition on that same drive (D, and after XP was installed, i went to drive D, and the files that I have been desperately saving for the past years seem to be gone. Any suggestions on recovering them? PLEASE HELP. thanks.