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-- [Halp!] Oh man I Fsked up.
[Halp!] Oh man I Fsked up.
Long story short, I fucked up one of my windows drivers which required a soft re-install of windows.
Need advice on:
1. How to regain my firefox bookmarks if possible.
2. How to remove the new account windows made me create and make it so that it just automatically logs on to the "Administrator" account.
3. How to change drive letters back the way I had them (my D:\ drive has the Windows installation, and I had found a way to change it to C:\, which didnt work when I just tried it.)
*spanks you*
step
1: spit on hand
2: ???
3: profit and regain firefox goodness
i can give you the auto login info if you want but the rest is too much to type
did you reinstall windows on a 2nd hard drive or the same one?
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| Originally posted by babyvsrhino did you reinstall windows on a 2nd hard drive or the same one? |
3. right click my computer, go to manage. go to disk storage (or something like that). when all your drives come up you can right click & properties and assign a new drive letter.
2. go to users and delete the new profile. if this doesnt work it might have something to do with your network settings. sometimes windows likes to have a login.
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| Originally posted by kadomony same one. when i did so, however, it lost the changes that i had made to the drive lettering. im in the process of copying my "documents and settings\Admin.computername(my old settings) to my new Administrator.computername folder |
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| Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN 3. right click my computer, go to manage. go to disk storage (or something like that). when all your drives come up you can right click & properties and assign a new drive letter. |
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| Originally posted by babyvsrhino Do you still have both windows installs? I know i've done this a few times and just copied the files i fuxor'd from the new install over to the old one, then deleted the 2nd install of windows and everything was just like it was before. |
Ah, whenever I did something like this, I would just do a 2nd windows install, so i had to choose which to start during boot up, then copied the needed files from C:\Windows.0 to C:\Windows and then deleted Windows.0 when I had everything working again. And its like nothing ever happened.
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| Originally posted by kadomony did that, but since D:\ is my Boot drive and C:\ is being read as my system drive, it wont let me change those. |
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| Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN so why is your boot drive separate from your system drive? youve done a good job of fucking that up!! |
1. Normally you'd just go to \Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\ and copy the appropriate profile. Or, you could just copy the entire directory, so you don't have to change the default profile to point to yours.
2. 
for using the Administrator account. At least you should set a password for it... Logging on as another administrator-privileged account will allow you to delete the extra account. Be sure to backup everything you need there, because Windows may or may not automatically move it to the administrator account.
3. Open up the 'disk manager' in the MMC (Microsoft Management Console) by start > run > 'mmc'. Then, press ctrl+m to add a snap-in, choose 'disk manager'. You should be able to change drive letters there. Note that if you actually swap around the partition order (which is not the case when you do a 'repair' install of Windows), you may have to change the boot.ini file to point to the correct partition.
It should be pointed out that it's probably possible to use the recovery console to extract drivers and system files, but it's probably easier just to repair, although you'd have to reinstall programs.
I know most of these were mentioned sporadically throughout the thread, but I decided to chip in with a comprehensive response. =)
hmmmmm. dont think i can help any more mate. unless of course you have another drive with an OS on it, boot into that, slave your fucked HD and then change the drive letter. though that would only work if your new HD wasnt labelled as C: already.
good luck! 
Thx guys, I've been looking stuff up, and all I've found was to use regedit to change the mounted drive letters.
i did that before, and windows hung right before the login screen.
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| Originally posted by kadomony and all I've found was to use regedit to change the mounted drive letters. i |
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| Originally posted by sandstorm03 if you keep trying that you're gonna have to reinstall windows again |
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| Originally posted by nchs09 step 1: gather underpants 2: ??? 3: profit |
alright i think i got it.
changed the mounted drive letters in regedit and did a windows repair.
it seems to have switched the drive letters now.
running a bit slow, but im gonna go thru the registry and manually change references
You might as well just do a clean reinstall. Since it's back up and running, you can copy over all the data that you need to keep (hint: entire profile directory [defaults to c:\documents and settings\%user%] if it's not too big). Of course, if you wanted to do that in the first place, you could've just used another method to access the data.
Glad you got it up and running again.
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