Partition troubles

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I had a problem with my main hard drive, a 160 gig WD with 3 partitions,
all ntfs formatted, and had to use a 3rd party partition recovery tool. When
I finally got the XP drive back up, Windows ran an extensive file checkdisk,
in which it found most file were misnumbered and deleted and recovered most.
The trouble is, it didn't repair extensively, and now I'm seeing alot of
problems, but I'm not sure if I need to reinstall everything (about 5 years
worth of stuff on here) or can I get away with reinstalling just Windows as a
repair installation?
Some of the more specific problems:

1) When I first got back on, it logged me in as a temp because the admin
file, wheile detected, wasn't in the correct format for reading or writing to
the registry.

2) Office XP programs couldn't be used, and I had to reinstall Office.

3) Some of my programs start as if they're going to open, then close out
completely.

4) Visual Studio can't find files necessary to open the development
environment.

5) AOL's internet connection can't connect me to the internet, instead
giving me a windows with a * in the upper corner of the window. It still
connects for maiwel and stuff, but internet got goofed up...luckily, we
recently got a cable modem, so I don't rely on AOL like we used to.

I've got no problem with doing a repair install of Windows, but I'm not
looking forward to a fresh install. It took me 5 years to get this thing
right where I want it, and I'd druther not start from scratch.

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replying.

Thanks.
 
If you don't want to reinstall everything then your only option is to do a
repair install and hope that all your stuff is basically still there. If
not - oh well.
 
Jerry wrote:

<<If you don't want to reinstall everything then your only option is to do a
repair install and hope that all your stuff is basically still there. If not
- oh well.>>

That's what I was afraid of. Ok, that leaves me with another question.
My XP cd is XP Pro w/ SP1, but I had downloaded and installed SP2. Will
arepair install still work or do I need an SP2 cd?
 
Jim

You will need an SP2 CD -see here:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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You are allowed to recreate your XP install CD so that SP2 is included on
it. This is known as "slipstreaming!"
 
Yves

Thanks for making the point. Something I need to do for myself.

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