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xp pro partial re-install

buzz11 · 2004-02-13 16:07:39

Here is the situation, if you can help I'd really appreciate; I have XP pro on a dell desktop....it stopped today so I tried system restore with no success. Dell won't provide support because XP pro was loaded over XP home. (arraagh) In a rush of blood to the head I put in the recovery cd but it asked to reformat the disk…

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13-02-2004 5:07pm

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buzz11

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Here is the situation, if you can help I'd really appreciate;

I have XP pro on a dell desktop....it stopped today so I tried system restore with no success.
Dell won't provide support because XP pro was loaded over XP home. (arraagh)

In a rush of blood to the head I put in the recovery cd but it asked to reformat the disk so I stopped because i really need the files of the disk first.

Now with the recovery cd out of the PC, when I boot up it still wants to launch an installation of XP.....

Here's my plan:
Take the drive out and install it as a second drive into my home PC (Dell XP home) then copy accross the files I really need. Then re-install into the work PC and continue with recovery cd.

will this work ?

Thanks in advance !!

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#2 13-02-2004 5:10pm
Hyzepher

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yep - as long as the formatting hadn't started you should be able to see the filestructure ok

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