Reinstalling XP Pro

anyone know how to reinstall Xp Pro without going back to the original version and losing everything? some of my apps, including the OS apps, have lost some of their files

also; how do i get all of my file extensions reassociated to their appropriets if i don't know them?

thanks.

 

Have you tried another restore date, in system restore?

 

i think there is no chanse to restore your windows working properly unless you have some images of your system, the most common is system restore as tunered has mentioned above. in future i'd advice you to make a full copy of your system every week with some of 3d party backup software, so if something goes wrong you can easily restore it.

 

i tried to go back, restore, as far as 3 months to no avail...

now it's Crashed!!!

somehow mbr and bios got hacked i think.

tried several anti-virus progs but found nothing.

bios started acting funny. (NOT)
also; noticed that when i went to change battery, cmos and date and time did not change and revert to default as expected. hmmm...

then tried live cd to access hd's to no avail...
now it won't boot. Damn...

What the F%^&???

any ideas?????????????????????????

thanks.

 

to repair MBR, boot in comand promt and them type fixmbr[device_name], it will repair master boot record, read this for more info.

if your bios crashed, the only thing that can help is to reinstall it.

 

Do you have a WinXP pro CD?

 

thinking about upgrading anyway.
current mobo; asus a7n8x-e deluxe. xp3200 cpu
any suggestions for gaming?

thanks.

 

Assuming the problem actually is a corruption of the OS this should correct it:

If you have a WinXP CD, try a repair install of the operating system. I have recovered this way before.

Don't use the repair console - opt to reinstall Windows. Then the XP CD will scan for and find the existing install on the disk, and give an option to repair it. Select the repair option. This way you will not lose any files on the drive (I never have). You may have to re-install all the O.S. updates from the Windows site, however, that were released after your XP CD came out.


Hope this helps!

 

yes.

thinking about switching to a linux os, maybe knoppix.
tired of WINCRAP!!!

any suggestions?

thanks.

 

I think we posted at the same time . . . I replied just before your last post . . .

 

computer won't even get to the point where you press "del" to set cmos settings.

i am going to give ranish a try to fix my mbr. on another pc.
thanks.