ok i just upgraded to xp so i can sort my network out properly but there is a slight problem, no programs or control panel options will load at all except IE and image viewer.

does anyone know what the fuck is wrong, i cant even load the prog's on the cd to change the installation :S


HEEEEEEEEEEELP!

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Try safe mode boot up m8 .. hold down some key on bootup .. forget which .. shift ctrl f3 or something .. can hold a few down i guess .. try from there ..

Ctrl-alt-del .. see whats going on in there also ..

no help at all, i have a feeling it tried to copy some settings of my old windows and fucked up. coz when you do run as it tries to protect programs from running incase of viruses but when you untick the box and click ok it does nothing and if you try it again the box is re ticked.




what i am gonna do is re unzip my windows 98, format the c drive, get my startup disk from home, copy 98 to the c drive, then run a different xp installer, the one with matching service pack.

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not a pirated copy is it STe?

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The safest thing to do when u upgrade ur os is to backup everything to cd or wotever, format ur hard disk, partition it and do a clean ntfs install of xp.

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Originally posted by dj_mdma not a pirated copy is it STe?

shush

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get a new pc!!

i will have a look at it on sun when i bring ur stuff back yeh? or whenever ur back! aparently chinese ppl are geeks, so...

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Originally posted by Yella Fella get a new pc!! i will have a look at it on sun when i bring ur stuff back yeh? or whenever ur back! aparently chinese ppl are geeks, so...

bring the stuff round about 7ish then mate

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Originally posted by sykadelik The safest thing to do when u upgrade ur os is to backup everything to cd or wotever, format ur hard disk, partition it and do a clean ntfs install of xp.

Yep, sounds like the instilation has screwed.

Get everything u need off the hard drive, somehow, heh and reformat it and then reinstal, xp boots from the cd, just need to change the setting in yr bios

But i see yella fella is gonna help

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Originally posted by flystyler Yep, sounds like the instilation has screwed. Get everything u need off the hard drive, somehow, heh and reformat it and then reinstal, xp boots from the cd, just need to change the setting in yr bios But i see yella fella is gonna help

how does it boot from the cd? does it not need a startup floppy?

it is a pirated version btw


and no worries about the backup, my d drive has loadsa space

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Originally posted by Ste how does it boot from the cd? does it not need a startup floppy? it is a pirated version btw

if you go into your bios (press del when you switch the comp on) then you can set the computer so its first boot device is CD-ROM, also set second and third boot device to none or off.

the comp will load from CD then you can format your comp and reinstall XP in an NTFS partition from all these screens on the CD.

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working now, ed came to the rescue with a bootable xp disk.


only good thing about xp is that i am caning my shoddy old 15" monitor at 1280x1024

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