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I had Windows XP Pro (SP1) running on my laptop, when my
harddrive broke. (Unrecoverable hard errors, 2 bad
sectors.)
To my shock, ASR refused to look at the external drive
which had my most recent backup, and reformats my only
internal drive, so I can't leave a copy of my backup
there. (Apparently Microsoft doesn't support backups to
C: under XP Pro or 64-bit). (If I had managed to find
unusually reliable floppies, I could have used 60,000 of
them, but I was trusting my larger capacity devices).
Using an external system, the data from my old drive (all
but 2 sectors) has been recovered, & I have it available
on one of my external drives. With the exception of some
files I don't care about, and oops, some busticated
windows files, it's all there.
But when I try to byte-copy onto my new replacement
drive, Windows won't boot, and objects with a checksum
error (apparently because my new drive doesn't have the
same serial number as my old one). Since the most
important things I want are mostly one one of the userids
I had, I'll gladly settle for copying that userid lock,
stock & barrel. I've tried copying the entire userid
folder (so I can keep all my settings)(after creating a
similarily named userid on my fresh install), but the
copy edits some .ini files (following DeleteOnCopy
directives), and has deleted some files.
===> What's the best way to get as many of my
settings/files back off my flat image? (Without resorting
to what screenshots of setups I had made, and manually
entering everything?)
harddrive broke. (Unrecoverable hard errors, 2 bad
sectors.)
To my shock, ASR refused to look at the external drive
which had my most recent backup, and reformats my only
internal drive, so I can't leave a copy of my backup
there. (Apparently Microsoft doesn't support backups to
C: under XP Pro or 64-bit). (If I had managed to find
unusually reliable floppies, I could have used 60,000 of
them, but I was trusting my larger capacity devices).
Using an external system, the data from my old drive (all
but 2 sectors) has been recovered, & I have it available
on one of my external drives. With the exception of some
files I don't care about, and oops, some busticated
windows files, it's all there.
But when I try to byte-copy onto my new replacement
drive, Windows won't boot, and objects with a checksum
error (apparently because my new drive doesn't have the
same serial number as my old one). Since the most
important things I want are mostly one one of the userids
I had, I'll gladly settle for copying that userid lock,
stock & barrel. I've tried copying the entire userid
folder (so I can keep all my settings)(after creating a
similarily named userid on my fresh install), but the
copy edits some .ini files (following DeleteOnCopy
directives), and has deleted some files.
===> What's the best way to get as many of my
settings/files back off my flat image? (Without resorting
to what screenshots of setups I had made, and manually
entering everything?)