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HP Pavilion a1012x Recovery Problem - Windows XP
Boggin:
Wonder if this Repair disk with its auto repair would get you past that https://neosmart.net/blog/2012/windows-xp-system-repair-and-recovery-cds-available/
Edit - Sorry, thought this was a freebie.
The Kaspersky or Hiren's disk should be able to help, which are free.
Shane:
We want to clone the disk as a cover our butts option.
That way since we will be trying to get things work with it on the new drive, if we mess up or do something wrong the old drive is still as is and we can always clone and try again. The data is to important to lose for the wife. As a matter a fact make a backup of that data as well. That old drive will die someday and the includes all the files with it.
There are a lot of cloning programs out there, I myself use norton ghost, isnt free and is literally the ONLY symantec product I use lol
There are some free ones out there as well but since i havent used them I am not sure which one to have you use.
Normally what you would do is have the 2 drives hooked in the same system, boot off a cd or usb drive that has the cloneing software and then clone the old drive to the new.
If for any reason you cant have both drives hooked up at once you have the clone software save the clone to a image file, save it to an external or something then hook up the new drive and clone from the image file.
But no matter what I dont want to touch anything on that old drive. And the recovery disks you got are not going to work, so if you dont want to do a fresh install and then move all the files over then the only option is to try and get the old Windows working.
I still think a fresh install is best. This way all the crap programs are gone, any possible infections and the system starts new. There is free software for everything she would need, backup, cd burning, office (Libre Office) and all kinds of other stuff (I could actually give you the list of the free software I install on my customers machines with a new install), then we copy all her files from her profile over and she has all her pictures back. So please consider that option. It is the easiest and cleanest way.
Shane
backtolife:
Thanks Shane & Boggin. Since it sounds like I could use the HP machine with Ghost (it can take both hard drives and boot from a CD) can you tell me what version of Ghost I'd want to get? eBay shows Ghost 2000 all the way to Ghost 15.
Shane:
The newer version of ghost handle the windows vista, 7 and 8 boot loaders where almost all the other version have handled xp just fine since xp came out in 2001. So any version of ghost should work.
Shane
backtolife:
Shane, I was thinking, I should probably ask you what other programs we're going to use just in case I need to look for others...
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