Recovery CD

[Guest]

I am trying to get my laptop up and running again. I received the blue death
screen and nothing has worked. I finally found my recovery CD's, I
purchased my laptop with XP Home Edition, I later changed to the XP
Professional. The start up CD's are for the XP Home Edition and I'm getting
a message This process will restore the original facotry operating system on
your hard drive......This is the question: Will going back to the original
operating system delete any thing I have out there on my hard drive i.e. my
pictures? Thanks again for any help you can give me.

 

[JimR]

I am trying to get my laptop up and running again. I received the blue
death
screen and nothing has worked. I finally found my recovery CD's, I
purchased my laptop with XP Home Edition, I later changed to the XP
Professional. The start up CD's are for the XP Home Edition and I'm
getting
a message This process will restore the original facotry operating system
on
your hard drive......This is the question: Will going back to the
original
operating system delete any thing I have out there on my hard drive i.e.
my
pictures? Thanks again for any help you can give me.

If you use the recovery cd you will lose all data. If you have the XP Pro cd
that you used to upgrade, you can perform a non destructive repair
installation of Windows.

 

[Guest]

Unfortunately I don't have the XP Pro CD. Is there anyway that you know of
that I can get it?

 

[Peter Foldes]

Sadie

You cannot use the XP Home recovery CD to restore if you have XP Pro on your computer. You will need the XP Pro CD that you used to Upgrade your system. Have you considered a System Restore to an earlier date before the BSOD appeared

 

[Rock]

I am trying to get my laptop up and running again. I received the blue
death
screen and nothing has worked. I finally found my recovery CD's, I
purchased my laptop with XP Home Edition, I later changed to the XP
Professional. The start up CD's are for the XP Home Edition and I'm
getting
a message This process will restore the original facotry operating system
on
your hard drive......This is the question: Will going back to the
original
operating system delete any thing I have out there on my hard drive i.e.
my
pictures? Thanks again for any help you can give me.

Sadie, I just replied to you in the original thread. Please don't create
multiple threads on an issue.

 

[Dave]

I am trying to get my laptop up and running again. I received the blue
death
screen and nothing has worked. I finally found my recovery CD's, I
purchased my laptop with XP Home Edition, I later changed to the XP
Professional. The start up CD's are for the XP Home Edition and I'm
getting
a message This process will restore the original facotry operating system
on
your hard drive......This is the question: Will going back to the
original
operating system delete any thing I have out there on my hard drive i.e.
my
pictures? Thanks again for any help you can give me.

Using a recovery CD that recovers the original operating system on a
commercially made PC does just that. Makes the hard drive just like it was
when purchased in the laptop. This will wipe out any pictures or any other
files gathered since that time. It will wipe out any software installed
since that time. All IE favorites gone, internet connection gone.

An external hard drive would probably be a safe bet for relocating your
personal files. Leave disconnected while using the recovery CD routine.
Then, reconnect when XP is fully installed.

 

[Richard in AZ]

Yes, you can go to your local computer store and buy it.

If you really need your pictures and files off the drive, you should consider going to a "good"
repair shop (not a big box shop like Best Buy, etc.) and have them use their tools to copy these
files to CD's. I have several programs that let me run the PC without using the hard drive and I
can generally access the hard drive and copy files to CD's. Then you can use the restore disk to
set your computer back to factory status. If you need XP Pro, you have to buy a disk. (If you
borrowed a Pro disk the first time you upgraded, you are a pirate.)

 

[brainmarkanthony]

I am trying to get my laptop up and running again. I received the blue death
screen and nothing has worked. I finally found myrecoveryCD's, I
purchased my laptop with XP Home Edition, I later changed to the XP
Professional. The start up CD's are for the XP Home Edition and I'm getting
a message This process will restore the original facotry operating system on
your hard drive......This is the question: Will going back to the original
operating system delete any thing I have out there on my hard drive i.e. my
pictures? Thanks again for any help you can give me.

When you will use XP Home Edition to restore to original factory
setting your all data will be lost.
Try to repair your OS from bootable XP Home Edition.
If it doesn't work then you can go for data recovery software. It will
recover your all data, your pictures and other informative things. You
can try with the Stellar Phoenix FAT & NTFS data recovery software. It
has an ability to pull out the data from dead hard drive. Download the
demo from: http://www.stellarinfo.com/partition-recovery.htm
Make your infected hard drive as slave run the software on the master
drive and start the scan process. When scanning completes all found
data is then presented in a tree structure so that you can copy your
lost files to a working location. recovered data will be shown marked
as 'deleted'. If you are able to see all your data and picture through
the demo version, then to save it get the full version.

Hope it may help you to overcome your problem.