Potpourii 19 Feb 2010

------------------------ · Mon Feb 22, 2010 12:41 am

nomoman wrote:How did you do that?

I would have to go back through my discs, but I believe I used "system recovery" . I am sure if you google it for your computer you can find it . My laptop has system recovery available by holding f11 while the computer boots up.

nomoman · Post by **nomoman** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 3:31 am

mark-b wrote:I would have to go back through my discs, but I believe I used "system recovery" . I am sure if you google it for your computer you can find it . My laptop has system recovery available by holding f11 while the computer boots up.

I tried that. Mine was f8. I tried safe mode, safe mode with network, command prompt and several others that were listed. They all brought me back to a black screen. The little bar would go across like it was going to boot up. Then the whole computer shuts off.

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 6:00 am

mark-b wrote:I was able to remove my windows operating system completly and save all of my photos. I then reloaded windows and my photos were all in 1 folder.
Mark

If C: drive is dedicated to the OS and all the other files are on other drives, will this allow you to replace the OS without disrupting everything else.

I guess the real question is can you reformat only one drive if the hard drive is partitioned without touching the other drives.?

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 10:18 am

dusty wrote:If C: drive is dedicated to the OS and all the other files are on other drives, will this allow you to replace the OS without disrupting everything else.

I guess the real question is can you reformat only one drive if the hard drive is partitioned without touching the other drives.?

Formatting is a partition specific operation. I have both an ntfs and a fat32 partitions on mine. This could only have been created if formatting is partition specific.

Reformatting will not work if the drive has gone south, or the partition table is corrupt. Th partition table can be patched with appropriate sw and knowledge of what to patch and to what 'values'. A paper copy of the partition table values is crucial at that time!

honeywell · Post by **honeywell** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 6:38 pm

JPG40504 wrote: A paper copy of the partition table values is crucial at that time!

Where would I get the paper copy?

------------------------ · Mon Feb 22, 2010 7:15 pm

To reformat a drive or reload an operating system, you must have a computer that remains on. Since yours shuts right back off (I assume that it is not just the monitor fizzling out) I would wager that it is time for a new computer. You would then have to take your dead puppy to have the pictures removed from its brain.

------------------------ · Mon Feb 22, 2010 7:29 pm

I did a "full system restore (with backup)" as opposed to the full system restore that is destructive. This moved the contents of the harddrive to the C:\MyBackup folder and installed a new copy of windows xp. Doing it this way saved all of my existing data files, but all programs had to be re-installed and program settings reconfigured. I needed 4 GB of open hard drive to do this option.
Mark

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:37 am

honeywell wrote:Where would I get the paper copy?

If ya have the sw to write to it, ya have the sw to read it and either print it or manually write it or save it to a file for later reference. This is not for the average person. It requires an understanding of what the bits mean to the operating system.