I have a question, couple of years ago, I had a system failure and windows tech support help me fix it but had me do a lot of registry entries in windows recovery console. What ended up for the fix was he had me actually put the boot files on another hard drive, why???? I do not know. I had to do a reinstall of windows just was time for it, and I noticed that it still has the OS on my E: but my boot files such as the NTLDR, Boot.ini, Config.sys, MSDOS.SYS, IO.sys, NTDETECT.COM, AUTOEXEC.BAT, are all on C:.. I had gotten a virus I believe the mywebsearch, and I believe something else and I could not get rid of it so I reinstalled Windows XP. Problem is, I feel like there is still something fishy, for instance, I can not change some registry keys, when I do change them to owner creator with me as admin and owner creator, the registry will go through the process of changing, but will revert back, or, will make another user> me/administrator/me (example) with only read attributes. I try to set full control but it will revert right back. I installed my Mcafee security, and to remove all Mcafee products I used Mcafees removal tool, and it reports,"was unable to remove registry key, access denied". I Have researched a bit on Registry and the virus forums, I show no malicious software, no root kits, nothing viral with any scan tool period, but it just seems funny how my system is acting. I wanted to reformat and do total reinstall, ut my disk is the upgrade XP, and is a big hassle to reinstall fresh with that certain disk. Any tips I would be greatly thankful for!
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I have never eve tried what is offered on this site but using the information here and with your upgrade Cd you may be able to create a working OS CD. If you can, you could then look at slipstreaming It to have the latest upgrades as well.…
Jump to PostHi, billy.
Next time you install Windows don't let it [Setup] see your old installation... ie. disconnect your E: hard drive first. And then it should be happy to install onto C: its boot and system files.
Jump to PostHi, billy.
Next time you install Windows don't let it [Setup] see your old installation... ie. disconnect your E: hard drive first. And then it should be happy to install onto C: its boot and system files.Hi gerbil,
his OS Cd is an upgrade version, will he be able …
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