restore of backup file on xp home edition

[mo]

my pc had xp pro on it and i ran into problems so i backed up the
drive on an external drive.

i had to reformat the computer and install xp home edition as the
other disk is lost. The home edition has not got backup on it and
does not seem to support this.

Is there any way i can restore the origional backup file to my pc.

[Maincat]

"mo" > wrote in message
ups.com...
> my pc had xp pro on it and i ran into problems so i backed up the
> drive on an external drive.
>
> i had to reformat the computer and install xp home edition as the
> other disk is lost. The home edition has not got backup on it and
> does not seem to support this.
>
> Is there any way i can restore the origional backup file to my pc.

Backup is an addirional install with XP Home. I think the file you need is
in the Valueadd folder on the CD. Add/Remove programs, windows components
then find Backup. Have the CD in.
>

[mo]

that did backup all the files but computer will not boot into xp pro
only to xp home edition.

on reboot error message <windows root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe is
missing or corrupt. and will not now go into eirher.

have tried recovery disk and bootcgf /rebuild. to no avail any help at
this stage would be appreciated.

[Richter]

try installing a copy of your boot.ini file..that usually is the problem.
copy it to c:

Matt


"mo" > wrote in message
ups.com...
> that did backup all the files but computer will not boot into xp pro
> only to xp home edition.
>
> on reboot error message <windows root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe is
> missing or corrupt. and will not now go into eirher.
>
> have tried recovery disk and bootcgf /rebuild. to no avail any help at
> this stage would be appreciated.
>