WOOOO
got my tickets!!!!
Woooooo!!!
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Friday, August 8, 2008
Im an Idiot
Soooooo. I was mistaken. It seems i have way too many partitions for my 4 HDDs and coupled with the fact i had a USB hub with some flash drives attached and a card reader installed when i reinstalled windows (on a different partition thank god, as apparently when i first installed windows, it was NOT on the C drive as i thought) that the new windows install didnt recognize one of my hard drives, at all. So i thought my files were overwritten when in actuality they werent even seen.
After pulling out the hub and unplugging the card reader, the new windows install finally could see my other HDD, and with it my old windows install. So after copying over the hal.dll from new to old, i restarted and entered the recovery console.
I recreated my boot.ini and moved to the next step.
From there, i discovered (at least it seems) that before i installed the new windows, i couldnt run bootcfg /rebuild on my C drive because there was no installation of windows on there previously, but i understood the error as "yer fucked".
But it seems that that was the case, as i ran it again on the old windows partition and it ran fine. I included my old install in the rebuild but not the new one. Rebooted and BAM, old windows works again. I then proceeded to delete everything i can from the new install and happy days are here again.
After pulling out the hub and unplugging the card reader, the new windows install finally could see my other HDD, and with it my old windows install. So after copying over the hal.dll from new to old, i restarted and entered the recovery console.
I recreated my boot.ini and moved to the next step.
From there, i discovered (at least it seems) that before i installed the new windows, i couldnt run bootcfg /rebuild on my C drive because there was no installation of windows on there previously, but i understood the error as "yer fucked".
But it seems that that was the case, as i ran it again on the old windows partition and it ran fine. I included my old install in the rebuild but not the new one. Rebooted and BAM, old windows works again. I then proceeded to delete everything i can from the new install and happy days are here again.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
UGH
Ok so my windows install got corrupted. Apparently the hal.dll file was bad or missing. So a little research points to 2 things, that i either have a bad or missing hal.dll, or i have a bad or missing boot.ini.
The most direct solution is to unzip the hal.dll from the xp cd onto your computer into the windows/system32 folder through the Recovery Console. Easier said than done as i haz ACCESS DENIED to my windows folder. Well shit. So another advice that "looked" to work was to install windows into a different folder, then move over the correct files to the old windows folder since you can access these files through reg windows. I must have not done it right, as it was supposed to prompt me to choose whether to install over the old installation or choose a new directory.
it didnt.
it installed over the old directory.
everything in my documents and desktop are lost now as it was overwriten. no more pics, no more itunes library, no more random notes i write myself on my desktop.
gonna try to see if a file recovery prog will work but it looks like im shit outta luck.
So lesson of the day, either backup your desktop files and my document files, or make sure to keep them NOT in those folders. As if you do try to reinstall windows, you might screw yerself like i did.
The most direct solution is to unzip the hal.dll from the xp cd onto your computer into the windows/system32 folder through the Recovery Console. Easier said than done as i haz ACCESS DENIED to my windows folder. Well shit. So another advice that "looked" to work was to install windows into a different folder, then move over the correct files to the old windows folder since you can access these files through reg windows. I must have not done it right, as it was supposed to prompt me to choose whether to install over the old installation or choose a new directory.
it didnt.
it installed over the old directory.
everything in my documents and desktop are lost now as it was overwriten. no more pics, no more itunes library, no more random notes i write myself on my desktop.
gonna try to see if a file recovery prog will work but it looks like im shit outta luck.
So lesson of the day, either backup your desktop files and my document files, or make sure to keep them NOT in those folders. As if you do try to reinstall windows, you might screw yerself like i did.
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