Written from the kitchen table

[kinzel]

I'm writing this from the kitchen table, via Haysus the Asus, while the "big machine" in my office is going through a Windows nervous breakdown, telling me that, multiple times, that "we're sorry, Windows did not start normally" ....

This is not good news on account of I don't want to have to reinstall every single bit of software I have on that sucker in case there really is a problem ...if it doesn't route through to the desktop this time I'll move the box and push all the add-on cards, memory, and etc to make sure nothing urgent vibrated free during the overnight ...


UPDATED ...

the "return system to factory default" option seems open, but that's the pits ....
I have grabbed the most recent work on theo from the back-up drive, which is looking precious ......
sigh

Comments

Re: recovering xp

[(Anonymous)]

I had horrible feeling that this was the case. The symptoms you are getting are the same as I have had with hive file corruption but I am unsure what the effect of having an oem build is.

Microsoft seem to be worried you could find yourself without working admin passwords.

I suspect that despite microsofts warnings that you could get away without replacing security.sam.

I would however say that before going down this route you need to make sure you have back-ups of everything on the drive. Which could be easier said than done since that may require removeing the drive and hooking it up to another machine.

Richard