Clean install?

[Guest]

The last few days I've been trying to recover from a curropt registry. I can
login as Owner w/ Adim rights and have recovered all the inportant files and
moved them to another partiton on a different harddrive. Its been about 2
years since I've done a freash install of XP so I'm thinking might as well do
it now and start over with a clean install.

I've back-uped email and bookmarks, etc and made a list of all the little
programs I've installed over the last 2 years.

Is there anything else that I should do before repenting, reformatting, and
reinstalling?

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi Kevin,

Did you give System Restore a try?

All About System Restore in WinXP:
http://bertk.mvps.org/index.html

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install by Michael Stevens MS-MVP:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

XP Clean Install by Michael Stevens MS-MVP:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

 

[thecreator]

Hi Kevin,

If your Original XP Upgrade CD, is the original version of XP, not SP1
or XP2, I would download Windows XP Service Pack 2 and save it to another
partition, before you reformat and reinstall, because Windows Update isn't
supported for Windows XP and Service Pack 1. Not sure on the cutoff date,
thou.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...be-3b8e-4f30-8245-9e368d3cdb5a&DisplayLang=en

You have backed up the data for individual programs?

 

[Guest]

So far I've done this:

"One more suggestion from MVP Alex Nichol

Reboot, this time taking the immediate R option and if the CD letter is say
K: give these commands

copy K:\i386\ntldr C:\
copy K:\i386\ntdetect.com C:\


(two other files needed - just in case)

1. Type: attrib -h -r -s C:\boot.ini del C:\boot.ini

2. Type: BootCfg /Rebuild

which will get rid of any damaged boot.ini, search the disk for systems and
make a new one. This might even result in a damaged windows reappearing; but
gives another chance of getting at the repair"


And followed the steps outlinned in
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307545 but when I get to Part 3, Step2 I'm
asked for an admin password to enter Recovery Console so I can finish-up. Up
till now I haven't been asked for a password and what should be my adim pass
isn't valid.

When I try system restore from the admin logon, both safe mode and reg boot,
there isnt any points listed. Which I think is because I cant fiinsh up in
the recovery console.

Try the link below if the repair option is not available.

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi Kevin,

All three links I posted work perfect here. I would say the repair
install would be the next step.

 

[Guest]

I have a SP2 disk here so thats not a problem. I was able to take ownership
of my old my docs and back them-up. AFAIK this should have everything I
need. Other than that I've DL'd the lastest drivers for sound, vid, network,
etc.

I think I've covered all the bases. I went thur the drive folder by folder
asking myself if theres anything assoicated to them I need to save.

Just wanted to see if theres any steps I can take pre-clean install to make
thngs easyer.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

I have a SP2 disk here so thats not a problem. I was able to take
ownership
of my old my docs and back them-up. AFAIK this should have everything I
need. Other than that I've DL'd the lastest drivers for sound, vid,
network,
etc.

I think I've covered all the bases. I went thur the drive folder by
folder
asking myself if theres anything assoicated to them I need to save.

Including the folders that are hidden - for example hte ones where the
Windows Address Book, Outlook Express and Outlook mail stores are?

Just wanted to see if theres any steps I can take pre-clean install to
make
thngs easyer.

One thing you might do, since you have multiple partitions, is to make sure
that each "Drive" has a clear and distinct volume label. This may help
clarify significantly when it comes to choosing the install point.

HTH

-pk

 

[Guest]

Did a repair to windows and got Error Code= 0x8007007f

Also Error occurred loading: C:\WINDOWS\System32\inetcomm.dll
C:\Program Files\Outlook
Express \msoe.dll
C:\Program Files\Common
Files\System\wab32.dll

 

[Bert Kinney]

When do these errors appear? When Windows starts, or when OE is
launched?

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org

Did a repair to windows and got Error Code= 0x8007007f

Also Error occurred loading: C:\WINDOWS\System32\inetcomm.dll
C:\Program Files\Outlook Express \msoe.dll
C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\wab32.dll