Hi all,
This is my first time here and I'm hoping someone might be able to help me out. I wanted to upgrade my partner's desktop from 2k to XP Pro and I did an upgrade install instead of a clean one. It presented problems as 3/4 of the way through it requested a file "wiaide" with a path into a temp directory from 2k. I asked a couple of IT mates, both said I should do a clean install over the top and that this should sort it out - which I did. It's ended up that when the PC boots up, there's an option to choose from 2 versions of XP but the default version is the fully working one. However all the programmes and data are not where they should be, i.e. they're under C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents or Program Files depending on whether they're programmes or documents. In the usual places, i.e. My Documents or the normal Program Files folders, there is nothing there. Also in the list of users there is something strange, Administrator is listed, All Users and then All Users.WINDOWS. I am unware of having created a partition but obviously something has separated out during the install. I am resisting formatting because there is so much to get off the PC in the way of recordings etc plus some programmes he no longer has the disks for. (I thought he'd done a backup before this but discovered too late that he hadn't). I hope all this makes sense because it's a bit complicated to explain really.
If anyone can shine any light on this, I'd really grateful.
Many thanks
This is my first time here and I'm hoping someone might be able to help me out. I wanted to upgrade my partner's desktop from 2k to XP Pro and I did an upgrade install instead of a clean one. It presented problems as 3/4 of the way through it requested a file "wiaide" with a path into a temp directory from 2k. I asked a couple of IT mates, both said I should do a clean install over the top and that this should sort it out - which I did. It's ended up that when the PC boots up, there's an option to choose from 2 versions of XP but the default version is the fully working one. However all the programmes and data are not where they should be, i.e. they're under C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents or Program Files depending on whether they're programmes or documents. In the usual places, i.e. My Documents or the normal Program Files folders, there is nothing there. Also in the list of users there is something strange, Administrator is listed, All Users and then All Users.WINDOWS. I am unware of having created a partition but obviously something has separated out during the install. I am resisting formatting because there is so much to get off the PC in the way of recordings etc plus some programmes he no longer has the disks for. (I thought he'd done a backup before this but discovered too late that he hadn't). I hope all this makes sense because it's a bit complicated to explain really.
If anyone can shine any light on this, I'd really grateful.
Many thanks