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Old April 20th 10, 08:59 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Tim Meddick
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Default How to clone Windows XP back to your HD?


I did say in my initial reply - the Admin password is *usually* NOT set to anything -
therefo just press [ENTER] when asked for the Administrator password - instead of
trying to enter one.

You are nearly there!

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"Carl" wrote in message
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Tim -

Thank you ever so much for those detailed instructions.

I followed them to the letter, inserted the USB flash drive and booted
the Netbook.

I saw the _starting windows recovery console_, and now sit at the
prompt:
1: C:\Windows

Which Windoes installation would you like to log onto
To cancel, press ENTER?

Googled what to do next and discovered I should enter the numeral 1,
then my admin password.

I do not understand: it will not accept my admin password. I have
entered it repeatedly, I am sure it is the right one, but no go.

It returns _the password is not valid_.

Any other options open to me???

Again, many thanks.



On Apr 19, 3:44 pm, "Tim Meddick" wrote:
The ZIP file contains paths within it.

If you were to open the ZIP file in explorer (with XP's in-built ZIPfile shell
extension) then you would see the folder structure and "UDF" within!

However, your would NOT see the folder structure within if you opened the ZIPfile
with WinZip or a similar program, as the folder structure is not displayed but
internal paths are just listed in their own column (if chosen to be shown).

TO re-create the folder structure contained within a ZIP file when "unpacking"
(WinZip), you will have to checkmark the box called "Use folder names" in the
"Extract to..." dialogue.

Or something similar in other archiver programs.

And with the command-line utility : PKUNZIP.EXE it's the [/r] switch
(r=recursive):

pkunzip /r "MyZipFile.zip"

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)

P.S. Here is a folder / directory "tree" of the correctly un-packed archive :

Root:
|
--------UFD
|
--------cmdcons
|
--------system32


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