AlanB
December 5th 03, 01:44 AM
Boot from the XP CD and try a repair on the first install but this is a
short term fix.
You probably need to use a dos boot floppy and "Fdisk" to kill everything on
the disk and reinstall XP.
You could Use the XP CD disk and format the drive to erase the two older
installs. But I think a blank slate is the best fix for you.
The older apps should be reinstall and you will then need to find and copy
over the data you need in the old install.
Alan
"Bill Dennis" wrote...
> My first installation of Windows Xp became corrupted because of a missing
> file. I was enver able to find out how to fix the problem, so I simply
> reintsalled Windows into the same directory. Now, I've got a hard drive
that
> is more full than I wont it to me, and I need to access files and folders
> and in some cases programs that I no longer have access to. Even through I
> am the administrator, I cannot sign on into originall installation user
> profiles to do this. Help!
>
> --
>
> Bill
>
>
short term fix.
You probably need to use a dos boot floppy and "Fdisk" to kill everything on
the disk and reinstall XP.
You could Use the XP CD disk and format the drive to erase the two older
installs. But I think a blank slate is the best fix for you.
The older apps should be reinstall and you will then need to find and copy
over the data you need in the old install.
Alan
"Bill Dennis" wrote...
> My first installation of Windows Xp became corrupted because of a missing
> file. I was enver able to find out how to fix the problem, so I simply
> reintsalled Windows into the same directory. Now, I've got a hard drive
that
> is more full than I wont it to me, and I need to access files and folders
> and in some cases programs that I no longer have access to. Even through I
> am the administrator, I cannot sign on into originall installation user
> profiles to do this. Help!
>
> --
>
> Bill
>
>