I have a problem! My other PC (XP Pro SP2) was having 0xD1 STOP errors, and I thought I'd do a simple XP repair install. However the repair install repeatedly stops during device installation with a 0xFC Stop error and refuses to continue. Now I am unable to start Windows in any mode. The remedy is probably a clean install, but I want to take some data off the C drive before it is reformatted. Recovery Console denies me access, and as the drive is NTFS, a ME boot disk cannot read it. There must be a way of getting at the drive so I can copy what I want to the second drive. I still have this second PC with XP Pro on it which should allow me to create what is needed. Can anyone help please?

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Slave the drive to your other PC.
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Thank you. Yes, I have just come to the same conclusion, after a long soak in a hot bath!


On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 10:33 am, Mac wrote:
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>Slave the drive to your other PC.
>

Mac
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>YOU
>ARE HUMAN BEINGS
>IF THAT IS WHAT YOU WANT TO BE (NOAH NOEL NOTHING)

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Which just goes to show that coincidence does exist. :)
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Well, normal service has been resumed more or less. I slaved the drive and copied everything I needed against re-formatting during install of XP. However I did not know there is an option that retains existing file structures while deleting and re-installing Windows. That has saved me some to-ing and fro-ing, but has probably caused file duplicates all over! The boring bit is re-installing all applications.


On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 11:47 am, Mac wrote:
>XP INFO >href="http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1126542499">XP CLEANUP

>Which just goes to show that coincidence does exist. :)
>

Mac
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>YOU
>ARE HUMAN BEINGS
>IF THAT IS WHAT YOU WANT TO BE (NOAH NOEL NOTHING)

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After too many failures when using ME, when it came to clean installing XP I fist 
installed XP (Pro) on its own, cleaned up, ran chkdsk, defragged and made a drive 
image.

Next added Anti-Virus, went online, updated the AV, disconnected from the internet 
and ran a scan, then updated the OS added AdAware SE, SpyBot SD and SpywareBlaster 
(tedious isn't it?) updated everything, registered the installation, sorted out all 
registry modifications and tune-ups, personal settings, etc. and moved all of the 
various my Documents and Email folders, paging files, etc. to the approriate partition, 
installed all my programs and updated them all, and when all was right cleaned up 
again and so on, and made yet another drive image. (Lots of hard work involved as 
you know.)

Wouldn't it be nice if MS made a dual drive system with a Master with two partitions 
and a Slave (size to be chosen at the point of sale) with four partitions and would 
only allow the sale of an operating system where you had the ProductKey and did not 
require registration so that, when it was installed, all of this happened automatically?

Junk the name 'TweakUI' for 'SystemSettings' where you can choose ALL of your preferences 
on ONE applet and with one click of the Apply button have them all applied with just 
the one re-boot.

The Operating System would come with a built in partition resizer and drive imaging 
program to data DVD as standard, so this means of operation would be immediately 
evident and the second partition of the Master drive would be used to either backup 
drive C: or provide a partition for a second language based on the same operating 
system. (I have XP Pro French on drive D:)

To me a floppy drive should also be compulsory hardware.

It would be really nice if all of the imbeciles who produce virii and advertising/marketing 
trojans would just give up and throw themselves OUT of some Windows too. They are 
only fish anyway.

Still, 'computing' is 'only' a 'religious' game.
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