I recently installed windows XP Pro on another hard drive and installed programs that I have and everything was working fine, I downloaded all the services packs and life was good. I installed partition magic and I noticed under my computer that the drive letters were changed around, I have C: D: E: and F: and D: and F: were switched for some reason when I ran XP Pro. So I decided to use the program that comes with partition magic called drive mapper that is supposed to collect references to each drive and "switch" them I guess. So I ran this program and little icons started disappearing from my desktop and then it said I must restart my computer for the changes to take effect, so I thought it was just part of the process. Anyways, now when I boot into Windows XP Pro using the boot manager that windows has (the one where you edit the boot.ini file to give you the different OS and timed out), it boots to the welcome screen and stays there for about 30 seconds and then says "A problem is preventing windows from accurately checking the license for this computer" and gives an error code.
So when I go to BIOS and switch hard drives and try to load windows XP Pro directly it just says missing ntldr, press ctrl+alt+del to restart. So I checked under the F:\ drive and made sure all the hidden files were showing and none of them are there that are supposed to be there (I only have a vague idea of what some of them are like boot.ini and other configuration and system files). So anyways, I have no experience with using recovery options on the CD and I don't want to reinstall windows again and all the programs because it took me about 3 hours to do everything. Is there anything I can do like make recovery diskettes at microsoft and restore the missing files that way?
Do you think your friend could feed my cat? Heisenberg wasn't sure. ~ Erwin Schrodinger talking of his revolutionary paradox
So when I go to BIOS and switch hard drives and try to load windows XP Pro directly it just says missing ntldr, press ctrl+alt+del to restart. So I checked under the F:\ drive and made sure all the hidden files were showing and none of them are there that are supposed to be there (I only have a vague idea of what some of them are like boot.ini and other configuration and system files). So anyways, I have no experience with using recovery options on the CD and I don't want to reinstall windows again and all the programs because it took me about 3 hours to do everything. Is there anything I can do like make recovery diskettes at microsoft and restore the missing files that way?
Do you think your friend could feed my cat? Heisenberg wasn't sure. ~ Erwin Schrodinger talking of his revolutionary paradox