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> > > > Greetings,
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> > > > Last night I was running my brother's computer in Safe Mode so I
> > > > could
> > > > access My Computer, etc as it is a bit clogged up with protection,
> > > > Norton, Window Washer, Spy Sweeper, and maybe even McAfee. I had
> > > > just
> > > > loaded Shell Extension Viewer (Thank you, R. McCarty) and made sure
> > > > that I could run it from cmd line but had not yet disabled anything
> > > > with it. Walked away for a few minutes and a brownout occurred, room
> > > > lights very dim, monitor off, and disk access light on steady. Yup,
> > > > no
> > > > UPS.
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> > > > Window startup fails. Will not start in any normal or safe mode or
> > > > last good config. Last thing that appears to load is Mup.sys before
> > > > it
> > > > cycles again. I assume we need to boot from Windows CD/DVD but how
> > > > would you proceed from that point?
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> > > > Thanx,
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> > > > gtb
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> > > Depending on the version of WinXP you have, you might be able
> > > to perform a "repair installation". Boot the machine with your WinXP
> > > CD, then select "Repair" when prompted.- Hide quoted text -
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> > Looks like we're hosed as he can't find the disk. MS decal is on top
> > of the machine. MicroCenter says they can restore it for $30.00 but
> > their process destroys all files. Data backup costs another $60.00.
> > Since it only needs repair would it be possible to use another XP disk
> > or would it gripe about the key?
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> > jh
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> > =================
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> > You can use any WinXP Home CD, provided that it is of the
> > same type (i.e. OEM or Retail).
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> > About your data: Welcome to the club of those who do not
> > believe in regular data backups. Sooner or later you will lose
> > the lot - there are many posts in this newsgroup about this
> > very subject.- Hide quoted text -
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> thanks! kinda new here, don't know too many neighbors but XP is
> pretty ubiquitous.....
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> I doubt very much that your neighbors can replace your
> holiday snapshots or your accounting files in case your
> disk suffers a melt-down. Happens all the time.- Hide quoted text -
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Not a problem. Important stuff is on thumb drive too. The boot process
starts and it loads a whole page full of routines from disk so at
worst case I believe I could mount it a 2nd drive and recover a great
deal if it became necessary.
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"Believe"? Believing is not a term I use in a backup
process. Either a backup process has been tested
with a sample recovery or else it has not, in which
case it is close to useless.