re: The most infuriating Windows platform!
Sunday, January 7, 2007 at 8:51 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DEX
(11847 messages posted)
You can also help some one :>)
Please revisit your post so that others on this forum will know if the solutions
were helpful or not helpful ........
Hi Rick
win2k gave you may tools to recovery from a crash, but you must read a bit.
The 1st. rule in windows is backup,backup,backup and make a ERD disk with in the
backup tool in win2k.
But it sounds like you would be best off to move to XP it's a be more forgiving than
win2k and has a restore program built in by default.
Good Luck
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On Sunday, January 7, 2007 at 4:43 pm, Rick wrote:
>I am using Win2k Pro. It has to be the most infuriating OS i've ever used! It's
>impossible to recover and get the machine to boot when you get an error. To top
>it off, i lost my installation CD. I looked on bootdisk.com and found the 4-floppy
>installation disks, but it's NOT the cd, and you do need the cd to be able to fully
>attempt a recovery. Plus, it takes FOREVER to load the floppies, almost 10 minutes!
>
>
>Why couldn't microsoft include a DOS? If you need a file from the drive, you have
>to somehow, someway, get things to work, or you can't get the file. You can't salvage
>the files on the drive, even if the OS doesn't boot, like in win95/98.
>
>I have spent like 30 hours, that's 10 hours a day, the last three days, trying to
>get the drive to boot. I've been on numerous websites.
>
>The most ridiculous thing about it is, even if you have the installation cd, you
>can't install over the current installation without it wiping the old installation
>from the drive. It will be a fresh install.
>
>I will get XP in a week from now, which i shoulda got years ago! THAT's a good
OS!
> Now, my big question is. CAN I install XP over this installation, where it will
>keep the software and stuff i have currently on the drive, or will xp wipe out everything
>too?
>
>
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