Filling XP holes...

2009-06-22 05:49:29

#1

dirk3672: The Invisible Claymore; +2|7131

Working on a laptop for a friend. Think a virus or disk corruption caused pieces of OS and/or Registry to get corrupted.

Symptoms: IE will come up, but crash when trying to go to a website. Updated IE to latest w/o change in crash.
Desktop Trash icon is not mapped.
CD/DVD would not mount (code 39), but I found M/S solution to fix that.

Virus Scan, RootKit Revealer runs all clean.

Is it possible to reinstall XP w/o loosing all the current installs of other programs and documents? I feel that I just need an "overlay" of XP to fix this.

-Dirk

2009-06-22 05:50:53

#2

DUnlimited: got any popo lolo intersting?; +1,160|6919|cuntshitlake

Use the repair function in XP install.

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2009-06-22 05:56:22

#3

dirk3672: The Invisible Claymore; +2|7131

Sorry, I should have mentioned that I tried that. It just led to a DOS prompt. I thought it would do the overlay....

Also should mention that Firefox works.

Last edited by dirk3672 (2009-06-22 05:57:32)

2009-06-22 05:57:07

#4

Cheez: Herman is a warmaphrodite; +1,027|6894|King Of The Islands

http://wiki.lunarsoft.net/wiki/Dial-a-fix

Also you used the repair utility, not the Repair Install.

Go Install Windows THEN choose Repair.

Last edited by Cheez (2009-06-22 05:57:54)

My state was founded by Batman. Your opinion is invalid.

2009-06-22 06:15:42

#5

dirk3672: The Invisible Claymore; +2|7131

Doh!!! Dang it...

Ok - will try that...

2009-06-22 06:17:18

#6

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6244|Catherine Black

While you're at it install Vista.

2009-06-22 06:24:57

#7

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6909|The Twilight Zone

Finray wrote:
While you're at it install Vista.

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2009-06-22 07:14:18

#8

Cheez: Herman is a warmaphrodite; +1,027|6894|King Of The Islands

Yeah lets all install Vista on hardware not capable of it. That didn't cause a massive fuck up the first time.

My state was founded by Batman. Your opinion is invalid.

2009-06-22 09:53:22

#9

dirk3672: The Invisible Claymore; +2|7131

I only have a XP SP1 disk (it's a Dell machine btw, with their OEM special CD's). The SP1 Install appears to want to do a full overwrite, no "repair" feature. Did the repair come with SP2 or SP3?

2009-06-22 09:56:31

#10

lxcpikiman: imbad @ bf2; +70|7051|Toronto-Canada

did you reformat the HDD?

2009-06-22 09:59:57

#11

dirk3672: The Invisible Claymore; +2|7131

No, I'm trying to avoid that. Again - I'm looking for an overlay. Or maybe something that can clean up the registry (if that's where the real problem is at)

Last edited by dirk3672 (2009-06-22 10:02:17)

2009-06-22 10:20:35

#12

Buckles: Cheeky Keen; +329|7012|Kent, UK

TBH you'll probably spend so long looking for an "easy fix" that you'd probably be quicker just formatting and re-installing.

2009-06-22 10:33:24

#13

Benzin: Member; +576|6454

Sounds like you might just have to suck it up and reformat. TBH, it's your best option. It will also remove all the crap that has built up. Write down a list of programs to reinstall and then see what programs you can export your settings on so that way you can easily get them back to where you want without mucking around with too many things.

Update everything first after you install Windows, install your programs and then run CCleaner and then defrag. My advice to you.

2009-06-22 11:04:03

#14

Agent_Dung_Bomb: Member; +302|7191|Salt Lake City

All the Dell machines I've worked on just used an OEM version of the Windows disk. Other than being from Dell and not asking for a key, the install process is identical to the retail version.

2009-06-22 11:29:02

#15

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|7162|67.222.138.85

dirk3672 wrote:
Working on a laptop for a friend.

It's not even his laptop. There isn't the luxury of judging how much the data is worth to him vs. the time spent trying to save it - it's not his data.

a registry cleaner I use

2009-06-22 14:03:50

#16

dirk3672: The Invisible Claymore; +2|7131

Well good news!! After running Flaming_Maniac's program the Recycle bin was fixed AND I was able to successfully reinstall IE!!!

Calculator is MIA, but that can be worked out later.

Thanks for all the help!!

-Dirk

2009-06-22 14:04:29

#17

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6909|The Twilight Zone

FM for tech badge

2009-06-22 14:21:29

#18

King_County_Downy: shitfaced; +2,791|7053|Seattle

Also, try Start--> Run--> SFC SCANNOW

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