Quote Originally Posted by joebloggs View Post
well you've probably not noticed, i've not been on here for a few days

nope i haven't got a life yet or something better to do, like feed the dog


xp on my pc got really , first time in nearly 2 yrs


when i loggoed in, it logged straight out , tired many things, created a dummy wgaupdater, scanned it for viruses, safe mode, nothing would work

so i had to in the end replace the s/w hive with an older one

could login, most stuff appeared to work ok, messenger and azuerus , but firefox or IE wsouldn't, tired loads of fixes etc, service packs, etc. could not get it to work.

so , wiped all of windows off it using mini windows xp, left me data on and reinstalled xp, just finished putting virus scanner/firewall etc back on

i've got 70gb extra free now , 70gb worth of kids games which have been installed over 2yrs are gone

works great now :xxgrinning--00xx3

lost nothing but the time it took to re-install xp and the utils.

my misses had more than 6gb of photos on it
Glad you got it back Joe, I hate the sick feeling in the pit of my stomach whenever I've had a drive failure or corrupted OS.

I've been lucky, I've never really lost anything I have had several major PC failures over the years though and it's the time it eats up trying to get a working system cobbled back together that is the real hassle.

Even setting up a new laptop (my work got me a new one a couple of weeks back) takes me about 6 or 7 hours to get to the point where I have a working Development system.

Just in the process of moving about half a terabyte of data around to make room to consolidate and to backup my photo libraries which come to around 300GB at the moment, trying to avoid having to buy another disk just now.


Jim