Hello,
OK, so now I'm using a Win7 PC to post this, but my problem is with my older XP Pro SP3 PC. Long story that basically started with a problem with the software associated with a HP All-In-One. I tried to do a Repair from a corporate version of XP Pro SP3 and hit the R too quickly which started a Setup process, thank you MS. Now I've really screwed up by copying the System32\Config\System file from an older PC that was built from the same XP CD. Now I've downloaded and extracted Recuva to my empty,formatted 2TB extenal HDD. How can I get my life back? I can get to a DOS prompt using the installation CD and go into my C: drive and see all my files are still there. I want to be able to boot from the external HDD and run the Recuva tools. If I have to reformat the external HDD it's OK because I still have the unextracted Recuva file on this Win7 PC. Any suggestions?
OK, so now I'm using a Win7 PC to post this, but my problem is with my older XP Pro SP3 PC. Long story that basically started with a problem with the software associated with a HP All-In-One. I tried to do a Repair from a corporate version of XP Pro SP3 and hit the R too quickly which started a Setup process, thank you MS. Now I've really screwed up by copying the System32\Config\System file from an older PC that was built from the same XP CD. Now I've downloaded and extracted Recuva to my empty,formatted 2TB extenal HDD. How can I get my life back? I can get to a DOS prompt using the installation CD and go into my C: drive and see all my files are still there. I want to be able to boot from the external HDD and run the Recuva tools. If I have to reformat the external HDD it's OK because I still have the unextracted Recuva file on this Win7 PC. Any suggestions?