have done something very very silly,
I have got 2x4 gig hdds + a 30 gig hd
right the silly bit
I rescued a desktop casing from a builders skip
and to my surprise inside was a athelon 700mhz with motherboard
no cd hd ect. right I thought my Windows XP unit has only got
a 400mhz p2 so you guessed it I spent several hours transplanting
all my bits into the new unit
it wouldn't boot from the Windows XP pro ntldr missing?
so I thought I would use the spare 4 gig and install from scratch
win 2000
YES YOU GOT IT I MIXED UP THE DRIVES AND HAVE FORMATTED AND INSTALLED WIN 2K
OVER MY XP PRO DRIVE
is there any way to get back XPpro ? it came installed on the drive when I
brought the origional pre owned pc. I have no disks for xp
I should have made a back up
any help appreciated, small cash available maybe buy disks or something
Andy

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Your computer should have come with a disk with a drive image backup on it.
If not, ask the manufacturer if it is available.  Otherwise, you're stuck
buying a new copy of XP.

"andy" <a.tuppenney@kent.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:cd58s5$1pm$1@athena.ukc.ac.uk...
> have done something very very silly,
> I have got 2x4 gig hdds + a 30 gig hd
> right the silly bit
> I rescued a desktop casing from a builders skip
> and to my surprise inside was a athelon 700mhz with motherboard
> no cd hd ect. right I thought my Windows XP unit has only got
> a 400mhz p2 so you guessed it I spent several hours transplanting
> all my bits into the new unit
> it wouldn't boot from the Windows XP pro ntldr missing?
> so I thought I would use the spare 4 gig and install from scratch
> win 2000
> YES YOU GOT IT I MIXED UP THE DRIVES AND HAVE FORMATTED AND INSTALLED WIN
2K
> OVER MY XP PRO DRIVE
> is there any way to get back XPpro ? it came installed on the drive when I
> brought the origional pre owned pc. I have no disks for xp
> I should have made a back up
> any help appreciated, small cash available maybe buy disks or something
> Andy
>
>
>

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On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 07:40:04 +0100, "andy" <a.tuppenney@kent.ac.uk> wrote:

> have done something very very silly,
>I have got 2x4 gig hdds + a 30 gig hd
>right the silly bit
>I rescued a desktop casing from a builders skip
>and to my surprise inside was a athelon 700mhz with motherboard
>no cd hd ect. right I thought my Windows XP unit has only got
>a 400mhz p2 so you guessed it I spent several hours transplanting
>all my bits into the new unit
>it wouldn't boot from the Windows XP pro ntldr missing?
>so I thought I would use the spare 4 gig and install from scratch
>win 2000
>YES YOU GOT IT I MIXED UP THE DRIVES AND HAVE FORMATTED AND INSTALLED WIN 2
K
>OVER MY XP PRO DRIVE
>is there any way to get back XPpro ? it came installed on the drive when I
>brought the origional pre owned pc. I have no disks for xp
>I should have made a back up
>any help appreciated, small cash available maybe buy disks or something
>Andy
> ===============================

I suggest that you contact your movie producers. The would probably
be interested in making a film about your life history.

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On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:20:25 -0400, J. Yazel <jyazel@ds.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 07:40:04 +0100, "andy" <a.tuppenney@kent.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>
>   I suggest that you contact your movie producers. The would probably
> be interested in making a film about your life history.

ROFL!

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I hear rescue companies saying they can recover OVERWRITTEN data.  Then I fi
nd that none will even recover one that has simply had its partition deleted
.  Weird.

And no, he could just copy someone's XP and use the license number which is 
probably on a manual or the case somewhere.

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 13:05:47 -0400, Mark Fagan <markfagan@iname.com> wrote:

> Your computer should have come with a disk with a drive image backup on it
.
> If not, ask the manufacturer if it is available.  Otherwise, you're stuck
> buying a new copy of XP.
>
> "andy" <a.tuppenney@kent.ac.uk> wrote in message
> news:cd58s5$1pm$1@athena.ukc.ac.uk... 
> 2K 
>
>
>



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