Okay, I know how stupid I am for doing this so you don't need to rub it in. However, you guys have fixed worse screw ups than this in the past so I thought I would give it a shot. Here's the problem:
I was having severe os problems (constant restarts) and I thought it might be an OS problem so I tried to repair or reinstall windows xp over the old installation. Some think that alone is stupid but it's the lazy way to fix these sorts of things on occasion. Anyway, I pressed "l" or something during the setup and managed to "delete previous installation of windows" and reinstall the os. During all of this madness I discovered that a stick of ram was bad and I shouldn't have done any of this at all. just great.
So now I'm back up and running but this isn't my computer anymore. Obviously, everything is like a new installation of windows xp. While installing the new os, xp automatically named my computer. It named it something like smith-9mrs. Once it started running I discovered that all of my old restore points were still on my xp drive and my old computer name was there also under documents and settings(something like smith-8vac). Unfortunately, because it is running under the new system name (or whatever you call that name) none of the restore points are available. XP acts like the old computer name and restore points aren't there despite the fact that all the files seem intact under the old name directory.
My dream (and, yes, I realize it is a dream) is to have this machine run under the the old computer name and restore all of the settings. Now I realize that this sort of thing may not be possible but, if it is, PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME! Although I'm no expert with these things, I do understand system restore some but it won't work automatically since the restore points are not available under the wizard. I need to figure out how to change the settings so that the os will boot under the old name and use all the old documents, settings, restore points, etc. I would love to use the file migration tool but, as most of already realize, I can't boot into the old system so I can't create a migration disk. If I knew how to manually create a migration disk by putting all the files in the right place it might work but I don't know how migration works so I'm stuck.
Anyway, I'm going to build a new computer in the next month or so and I don't really want to have to go through the steps of setting up an entirely new os right now if I don't have to. If any of you know how make the computer use the old settings on the winxp drive or know how to manually make a migration disk please help a brotha' out.
P.S. I'm running xp pro corporate with a dual 98/xp boot. I have three partitions: 98/xp/program data. 98 and program data partitions are completely untouched and as I stated earlier all of the old settings and restore points seem to be available in my xp partition under the windows directory.
I was having severe os problems (constant restarts) and I thought it might be an OS problem so I tried to repair or reinstall windows xp over the old installation. Some think that alone is stupid but it's the lazy way to fix these sorts of things on occasion. Anyway, I pressed "l" or something during the setup and managed to "delete previous installation of windows" and reinstall the os. During all of this madness I discovered that a stick of ram was bad and I shouldn't have done any of this at all. just great.
So now I'm back up and running but this isn't my computer anymore. Obviously, everything is like a new installation of windows xp. While installing the new os, xp automatically named my computer. It named it something like smith-9mrs. Once it started running I discovered that all of my old restore points were still on my xp drive and my old computer name was there also under documents and settings(something like smith-8vac). Unfortunately, because it is running under the new system name (or whatever you call that name) none of the restore points are available. XP acts like the old computer name and restore points aren't there despite the fact that all the files seem intact under the old name directory.
My dream (and, yes, I realize it is a dream) is to have this machine run under the the old computer name and restore all of the settings. Now I realize that this sort of thing may not be possible but, if it is, PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME! Although I'm no expert with these things, I do understand system restore some but it won't work automatically since the restore points are not available under the wizard. I need to figure out how to change the settings so that the os will boot under the old name and use all the old documents, settings, restore points, etc. I would love to use the file migration tool but, as most of already realize, I can't boot into the old system so I can't create a migration disk. If I knew how to manually create a migration disk by putting all the files in the right place it might work but I don't know how migration works so I'm stuck.
Anyway, I'm going to build a new computer in the next month or so and I don't really want to have to go through the steps of setting up an entirely new os right now if I don't have to. If any of you know how make the computer use the old settings on the winxp drive or know how to manually make a migration disk please help a brotha' out.
P.S. I'm running xp pro corporate with a dual 98/xp boot. I have three partitions: 98/xp/program data. 98 and program data partitions are completely untouched and as I stated earlier all of the old settings and restore points seem to be available in my xp partition under the windows directory.
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