You need 2 kinds of backup before proceeding to the clean install that you
actually need for XP to work right. One is all your personal data, the
other an image file of the windows partition to recover any data that you
may have overlooked when recovering image at the file/folder level. Some
specific settings like network and so forth may be specific to your network
or ISP, that you may have to write down on paper in the spiral notebook I'm
sure you keep near your PC for such purposes, passwords are another example.
And, this assuming you have all the 3rd party installation media available
and their specific product keys if applicable. If all is not available, you
may be in for a long rebuild to your previous level.
--
Dave
Speculation on a product or material that is
an obvious need, is not speculation per se
as there is no risk to the speculator.
Common were those selling food and other
supplies in the gold rush days.
In this case, its oil and its everyone who
bites the bullet. And most everyone has no gold
to be made, just business as usual.
"Paputxi" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:0CA99894-F00A-4A11-A7C0-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I had to replace my old MSI motherboard with Intel CPU (it died) with a new
> one; totally different from other one (ASUS) and AMD CPU. I am able to
> boot
> into Safe Mode, but it won't boot into Normal Mode. Looking at the boot
> log,
> everything looks fine until it says "Did not load driver ACPI
> Multiprocessor
> PC" followed by other "did not load" messages.
>
> I see where other people say to do a repair install of XP. But since it
> boots into Safe Mode, doing a repair install seems awful drastic in this
> situation. Does anyone know how to correct this problem without doing a
> repair install? Thanks in advance.
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