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December 30th, 2005 18:00
XP Re-install Problem
Hi,
I re-installed XP Pro SP2 this morning properly (ie Windows works). However files which were in my account as part of my old windows install were not removed by the re-install.
Now there is 19GB of files which I can't access from the new windows install on my hard drive that appear to be inaccessible to me.
What can I do about this? Any help much appreciated.
I re-installed XP Pro SP2 this morning properly (ie Windows works). However files which were in my account as part of my old windows install were not removed by the re-install.
Now there is 19GB of files which I can't access from the new windows install on my hard drive that appear to be inaccessible to me.
What can I do about this? Any help much appreciated.
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Posted December 31st, 2005 05:00
you have to do a full format of your hard drive and not just the quick one...
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Posted December 31st, 2005 16:00
@graduate wrote:
you have to do a full format of your hard drive and not just the quick one...
In numerous installations of Windows XP I have never done anything other than a Quick Format. A full format is required only if hard disk problems are suspected.
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Posted December 31st, 2005 17:00
Hi Denny, it happened to one of my computer when I reverted it from a raid "0" configuration setup to a stand alone ones for both drives. I did a quick format rather than full one and what happened was one of the drive exhibited the total amount of the two drives it had then while it was on raid whereas the other was fine. I did another quick format and installation but still the same. What solved the problem was doing a full format.
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Posted December 30th, 2005 19:00
If you reinstalled properly and those files were on the partition that XP resides on you did not reinstall properly. However, you should be able to access the files using the procedure here.