Did I create a new partition?

[BL Ankstone]

I caused an error (se original post, below), and to fix(?) it, I wound up
RE-installing XP. Now, I have issues getting things set up to work
properly.
My newly installed XP seems to be on a different partition (?), and none of
my programs or files are accessible as normal. If I go through explorer
to the "C"
drive, everything is still there, and I can access it. However, none of the
programs are available through "start/ all programs/..."
My question becomes, how should I handle all of the programs? When I go
thru Control Panel /add remove progs, only the items added with the new XP
are listed. I suspect that by not using the "add/remove programs" to try to
remove the corrupted programs, I will just create additional problems. How
should I remove them so that I can install new copies?
Should I just delete them from the explorer File Manager listings? Can I
move them so that my new "system user" can see them? I have discs for
Office/Norton/Corel/autoCad etc that I have ownership of, but all of the
stuff that was pre-loaded I guess I will lose.


Suggestions????
thanks -

 

[Michael Stevens]

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I caused an error (se original post, below), and to fix(?) it, I
wound up RE-installing XP. Now, I have issues getting things set up
to work properly.
My newly installed XP seems to be on a different partition (?), and
none of my programs or files are accessible as normal. If I go
through explorer to the "C"
drive, everything is still there, and I can access it. However, none
of the programs are available through "start/ all programs/..."
My question becomes, how should I handle all of the programs? When I
go thru Control Panel /add remove progs, only the items added with
the new XP are listed. I suspect that by not using the "add/remove
programs" to try to remove the corrupted programs, I will just create
additional problems. How should I remove them so that I can install
new copies? Should I just delete them from the explorer File Manager
listings? Can I move them so that my new "system user" can see them? I
have
discs for Office/Norton/Corel/autoCad etc that I have ownership of,
but all of the stuff that was pre-loaded I guess I will lose.


Suggestions????
thanks -

Do you still have the information in your My Documents folder you had before
reloading XP? If so, try this.


HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421

If not, then you did a reinstall and will need to reinstall your
applications. No need to uninstall as the files will be overwritten and
registered.
You should have done a Repair install.

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Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP
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