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.)
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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Jan-10-2007 03:55
babyvsrhino
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Jun 2006
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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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
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.
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Jan-10-2007 03:57
kadomony
FRENCH EXPRESS
Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Philly
quote:
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.
did that, but since D:\ is my Boot drive and C:\ is being read as my system drive, it wont let me change those. the way i did it before, i had to change something in the registry i believe.
looks like i got my firefox bookmarks back from copying my previous Admin folder, so that's a relief.
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.
nah, i overwrote the old one with the new one (just a repair of windows files, not the full format)
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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Jan-10-2007 04:02
pkcRAISTLIN
arbiter's chief minion
Registered: Jul 2002
Location:
quote:
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.
so why is your boot drive separate from your system drive? youve done a good job of fucking that up!!
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Jan-10-2007 04:06
kadomony
FRENCH EXPRESS
Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Philly
quote:
Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
so why is your boot drive separate from your system drive? youve done a good job of fucking that up!!
ok looks like that fixed itself somehow.
however, i still need to change the D:\(Boot) drive to C:\ so my programs run their dlls correctly
