Windows XP Recovery
January 2nd, 2007You know, as long as your computer works, everything in the world is great.
If you are a web developer, losing what data is on your computer is definitely not a good thing.
Especially if you haven’t backed up in a while.
So here I sit last week, just completing a night of work, and all is well.
I get up the next morning, turn on the laptop, and nothing.
So somehow Windows XP decided to have part of the registry to get corrupted.
Now what do I do? I have a ton of work on the laptop that I definitely don’t want to lose.
So where it gets interesting. I need a site to show me how to correct the problem, but not lose what I have on my system.
And now after over 4 days of nothing, I finally am back up and running.
The main two sites that I found that really helped where:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
and
http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=295
Both of these (which were difficult to find in regards to the problem I was having) provided excellent information on how to fix the problem I was having.
So what did I learn?
1) Backup on a more regular basis
2) Set restore points in Windows XP on a regular basis
3) Don’t keep your most important data in a folder on your Desktop, because if you have to do a repair install of windows, it will overwrite this folder so keep your data in a folder in the root.
4) See #1 - very important.
Well, it is nice that at least I didn’t lose everything on my hard drive. About the only ill effect from this was that I had to reinstall a number of applications.
It is nice to be back!
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