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re: Question about 'How do I get back into Windows XP'
Sunday, November 17, 2002 at 1:22 pm
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Posted by Bob Harris (992 messages posted)

Do realize that if the "fix" was to change the BIOS settings, then it may have been that the problem was not XP itself, but something more fundamental in your computer? Be honest, have you ever heard of a BIOS chaning itself (except for the rarest of viruses)? So, why did you have to make any changes? Suggestions for the future: (1) Define a second user on the PC, with full administrative rights, and a simple password. Write it down, in several places. (2) Make some plan to backup your pesonal files. You got away easy this time. Learn from the experience. Depending on the volume of files, CDs are good. Or, a USB 2.0 external hard drive is faster for multiple Gigs. (3) If you are unsure that you can do a repair of XP, get some system backup software, like Norton GHOST. Also useful for hardrive crashes. (4) If your disk is FAT32, you could have used DOS to copy files from it. But if NTFS, get an NTFS driver for DOS, and put it on a 98 or ME boot disk. One is free from http://www.winternals.com/. However, it only reads/copies FROM NTFS to FAT32. Their write on NTFS version costs money.

On Saturday, November 16, 2002 at 10:11 pm, Ian Rivlin wrote:

>
>I finally found out the problem - absurdly simple and irritatingly obscure - I just 
>set the BIOS to "Fail Safe Defaults" and everything started working again. Ridiculous 
>- Microsoft had nothing about this on their "(UN)Knowledge base"
>That's for the advice anyway.
>Reagrds,
>Ian
>
>






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Question about 'How do I get back into Windows XP' (Ian Rivlin: Sat, Nov 16, 2002, 6:10 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I get back into Windows XP' (marco: Sat, Nov 16, 2002, 7:14 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I get back into Windows XP' (Ian Rivlin: Sat, Nov 16, 2002, 8:16 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I get back into Windows XP' (Yap: Sat, Nov 16, 2002, 8:32 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I get back into Windows XP' (Ian Rivlin: Sat, Nov 16, 2002, 10:11 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I get back into Windows XP' (Bob Harris: Sun, Nov 17, 2002, 1:22 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I get back into Windows XP' (AldoV: Sat, Sep 2, 2006, 3:54 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I get back into Windows XP' (Ian Rivlin: Sat, Sep 2, 2006, 8:24 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I get back into Windows XP' (Shaun Cooper: Sat, Jul 30, 2005, 12:19 am)

re: Question about 'How do I get back into Windows XP' (Michael S. Gale: Tue, Nov 26, 2002, 8:48 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I get back into Windows XP' (Steve: Tue, May 13, 2003, 10:55 am)

re: Question about 'How do I get back into Windows XP' (Ian Rivlin: Tue, May 13, 2003, 4:28 pm)

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