Disaster strikes!! please help!

Jimbo

Jimbo

Jimbo

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I was trying to solve a problem on my pc and it involved uninstalling and re-installing nforce3 drivers. Anyway it wouldnt let me install the latest nforce drivers, so I used driver cleaner, but still no joy.

I then saw these folders on my c: root dir, they were something like NV******** or something or other, so stupidly I deleted them.

And now of course windows just blue screens on me, even in safe mode.

My question is this... would I be able to install windows from scratch on another drive in there, my d: for instance without losing any data of it (d: that is), then get some of my lost bookmarks and stuff of my c: drive?

Im gutted. :(

Or would i be able to reinstall xp without losing any bookmarks or data of c:?

a reformat is gonna suck some A tbh.
 
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I just found this on the web....

ReInstalling WindowsXP

Added 5/21/02

If you need to reinstall WindowsXP and want to keep all your current installed applications and settings:

1.

Start WindowsXP
2.

Go to the location of your source files
3.

Run WINNT32 /unattend

I've often need to do this to repair something that had gotten corrupted and didn't want to do a clean install.


Would I be able to do this from dos? using a startup disk say? anyone??
 
Thanks I'll remember that piece of advice. it just gets weirder, after a reinstall I'm still getting the same thing happening. I'm going for a full format now and hoping my raptor hasnt give up on me.
 
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