System restore wont restore me to earlier date....

[Guest]

Hey,

I'm new to this forum, but more importantly I need help. My labtop is
glitching on me, XP wont let me do a system restore. I can't even undo a
system restore. Soon as it restarts my labtop and lets me sign in it says
restore incomplete. I'm wondering if anyone can help me with this problem,
because I'd rather not have to whipe my drive and start all over again. I
can't use my XP OS CD to repair windows because it's out of date with the
service packs that are currently in place on my labtop. I keep current
updates on all my drivers and updates for my labtop. Also in retrospect one
of my programs has gone afarse and it keeps giving me .exe has encountered a
problem and needs to close. I installed a program earlier and it's not the
exe that's bugging but one that converts avi files, it said something about
copying files incase of roleback im wondering if that program messed up my
computer. After that program was installed my other executable wouldn't work.
I uninstalled the program that I think was the problem but it didn't fix
anything with my .exe. So that's why I tried a system restore, but that wont
work either. Please Help Me..... I'll keep watching the forums for updates.
If you want to email me my email is "(e-mail address removed)". Thank you.

 

[Guest]

You probably need to reinstall your XP. Some laptops allow you to
reset to the state when you first received the computer.

If you need a partition backup scheme, this is the right time to think
about it, during the XP install.

One possible solution is to divide your harddisk into C: and D:
and install XP on both.

We will call C: your emergency XP installation instance, and
D: your working XP installation instance.

Your emergency XP does not requires sp2 or any updates
since you only use it to create/restore an image. This is
a "minimal" XP.

The sizes of C: and D: depend on where you will be storing the
image of D:. If you will store the image of D: on C:, then C:'s
free space (after installation XP emergency instant) should be
able to accomodate the image of D:. On the other hand, you
can store the image on E: which could be an external drive or
another partition on the same harddisk, in which case C:'s
free space can be minimal (just enough so that XP does't
complain).

You create the image of D: with DriveCopy from
ElectronicsComputing.com (it is shareware).

You then create the image of D: by booting into the emergency
instance, and use DriveCopy. It is best to unmount D:
before creating the image, and better still is to also
defragment D: before unmounting it. The reason we want
to unmount D: is that otherwise Windows continuously accesses
all partitions, which causes inconsistencies in the image.

Check out the documentation of DriveCopy for more ideas.

Good luck.
N.B you can do the same for Windows 2000
Info@[email protected]

 

[Bert Kinney]

Download and run the EXE File Association Fix on the following web page.
Windows XP File Association Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm

I would then suggest scanning the system for virus/malware infection.
Here are some virus and spyware removal and prevention tips.
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/spyware.html