accidently and permanently deleted windows xp with Front Page

[Jeni]

I came to visit my parents for a couple of weeks...they
kept telling me the computer was running out of space and
was going to crash. When I checked the space they had
left, it was down to 18mgs. I started removing
unecessary info. immediately to keep them up and running
until a larger hard drive could be added (they currently
have a four gig). In add/remove I was going by the date
last used as i am not familiar with XP and wasn't sure
how to hold off the inevitable...needless to say, I
removed Windows XP with Front Page thinking it was a
newspaper style program of some sort that was not
needed. Then, deleted everything in the protected
recycling bin in order to create a smaller back-up and
now can't get anything back. Desperately need Front Page
to make this computer work right. PLEEEAAASE
help...parents want me dead...(I hate that!!) Was trying
to help out and WAY messed up! Any ideas? If they have
to buy this again, I am dead meat! Thanks! Jen

 

[Rob Schneider]

I came to visit my parents for a couple of weeks...they
kept telling me the computer was running out of space and
was going to crash. When I checked the space they had
left, it was down to 18mgs. I started removing
unecessary info. immediately to keep them up and running
until a larger hard drive could be added (they currently
have a four gig). In add/remove I was going by the date
last used as i am not familiar with XP and wasn't sure
how to hold off the inevitable...needless to say, I
removed Windows XP with Front Page thinking it was a
newspaper style program of some sort that was not
needed. Then, deleted everything in the protected
recycling bin in order to create a smaller back-up and
now can't get anything back. Desperately need Front Page
to make this computer work right. PLEEEAAASE
help...parents want me dead...(I hate that!!) Was trying
to help out and WAY messed up! Any ideas? If they have
to buy this again, I am dead meat! Thanks! Jen

I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to say ... assuming that you
have deleted the application FrontPage (or the folders holding Front
Page), perhaps the best course of action is to re-install FrontPage. Ask
your parents to give you the CD that holds Front Page. Follow the
installation instructions.

 

[squidfoot]

The last 4 gig box i've seen was an ibm aptiva running windows 95. are you
sure they have XP. It takes at least 64 if not 128 meg of ram to run it.
basically they have a $50 paperweight. No offense ! Really. My elderly
father had a similar setup. He's Ex IBM. Got him into the 700 Mhz range
last year and its still way too slow although he has a 40 gig HD. Drives me
nuts. Might could send you that file but it sounds like you deleted common
dll's to other start programs etc.


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[sm]

as you are thinking of buying a new hard drive, then
remove the old drive and install the new hdd and install
winxp assuming you have a winxp disk and then transfer
all the data from the old hard drive to the new dive.
caution: use different user names on the new winXP
install or u will have conflict with the old drive!

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[Alex Nichol]

I
removed Windows XP with Front Page thinking it was a
newspaper style program of some sort that was not
needed. Then, deleted everything in the protected
recycling bin in order to create a smaller back-up and
now can't get anything back. Desperately need Front Page
to make this computer work right.

Front Page is a component of the 'Office' application suite, not
Windows. Look for the CD for 'Microsoft Office,. . . with Front Page'
and run that to repair its installation

 

[sm]

any new drive will need an operating system before any
software is installed? u will need winxp on your new
drive before you install frontpage etc.....

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