Ya'll remember this? An update: I have actually repaired the computer
ans i is fully functional again! It was not easy at all. In on eof he
trouble shooting steps I went through, I had started the computer in the
safe mode. for some reason it had given me three days to activate the
installation of XP. The it ceased responding to anything. Cannot
activate if in Safe Mode. Cannot activate it on line if you cannot get
past the dead activation. After long searched, I found a sequence which
let me reset the activation back to 30 days. Many steps involved to do
that. But I was able to finally restart in safe mode with no issues and
I did that in the command mode which will run the cd drive. I then put
the Win XP Pro disk in and it started and ran. I had it try and do a
recovery console repair but it needed a reinstall. So I did that but
wihout over writing the old installation. I used a new windows file
folder name for the install and it worked very well. I now have all of
my old files, desk top, etc. working again. I did have to reinstall my
Norton anti virus but that went ok as well. I am actually amazed,
lol... I had o reinstall all the updates but that is also done now.
Life is good! But, what a chore!
Thanks to everyone who helped. I finally found the answer buried in MS
on one of their self help forums.
mayf
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On 4/1/2012 7:45 AM, Larry Mayfield wrote:
> Hit delete now unless you are interested in this issue, lol.
>
> I have a hard drive which is in trouble. Out of an older computer I
> have. It uses (used, lol) WIn XP Pro as the OS. It had a serious Trojan
> which denied access to the basic operation of the OS. Unfortunately
> during the attempted repair, I used a version of XP that was not the
> correct version or matching what was in the drive for windows. It is now
> stuck in never never land. When I boot it up, it comes up in Safe mode,
> except that i immediately says this needs to be activated and that it
> can only be activated in the normal start up mode. No matter what is
> done, it always restarts in Safe mode. Now, I can install another hard
> drive as the primary drive and this drive as the slave and I can start
> the computer and examine the hard drive. In fact, this is how I finally
> got rid of the trojan that was living on it. I think that if I could
> cripple the OS in the slave drive then I might be able to make it the
> primary then and retry to repair the existing OS by using the repair
> function on the XP set up disk. Does tis sound like a reasonable
> approach or is ther some other manner to get the system back to a
> stable position where I can reinstall XP? If I can cripple the OS what
> files do I need to rename or?
>
> Any helkp out there? Please reply off list as nobody else needs to be
> bothered with this.
>
> drmayf@mayfco.com
>
> many thanks hopefully for outstanding suggestions on how to do this!
>
> mayf
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