re: lost access to all programs after XP Home installed on same partition as XP Pro
Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 8:32 pm
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Posted by AnchorMan
(1465 messages posted)
What Rich said... Also you cannot "run" his old programs because they are on a different
path then the Home install. You need to "unhide system files" and also "hidden folders"
to see any on the old data. Once you unhide everything you can do a search for docs
etc. and should be able to find everything. (Set the advanced options in the search
to include hidden and system files) You can also reinstall all the programs and should
give access to old files. Good luck... Just shows it ain't worth the "free" upgrades.
AnchorMan
On Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 12:48 pm, Richard Harris wrote:
>You may have caused a problem with the XP registry. Specifically, the registry
for
>XP-pro had a lot of entries that pointed to programs, program preferrences, etc.
> By installing XP-home you probably created a new, fresh registry, that knows nothing
>about any of those programs. Whether the old XP-pro registry still exists, I do
>not know.
>
>Given where you are, the most reliable thing to do would be to re-install all programs,
>while logged-in under the new copy of XP-home.
>
>In theory, you could copy registry entires from XP-pro (if it still exists and if
>you can "read" it) to XP-home. But, in practice I doubt that anyone less than a
>super-geek could do it correctly. I would not try this.
>
>As for the user data that your friend did not want to lose, before going further
>to "fix" this PC, please consider backing up all user data off of the PC. A external
>USB 2.0 hard drive might be ideal. Remember that user files like DOC, XLS, JPG
can
>be copied&pasted. But, programs and the operating system need to be backed-up by
>more specialized means, such as Norton GHOST or Acronis True Image.
>
>
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