Hi jasoncarle..
did you format the partition which XP Home was installed on when you installed XP Pro?
did you format the partition which XP Home was installed on when you installed XP Pro?
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How on earth did someone manage to delete system32/config?? It's just about impossible to copy/move let alone erase so it was probably just cprrupt.
Anyway, nevermind that at the moment. Many PC's have different options to use their recovery partitions so it may be a case of calling the support number for the pc manafacturer's or even the shop where the machine was bought from. However, i'm aware some systems can be recovered by pressing F4 or F12 at boot....please bear in mind that doing this will in effect format the partition so if there is any data still on there that is vital, back it up before you start. Another thing to think about is some recovery options will restore the hard drive status to its original setting so if new partitions have been created on that drive, don't bank on them being there after you finish....I learnt the hard way. I partitioned my 120GB drive into 3 partitions (C,D & E) and when I used the recovery disk the first (and last time), I was advised that the C drive would be formatted blah, blah, blah so I thought no probs but it did the entire drive so everything on the D & E drives was lost although I was able to recover some with specialist software.
As for the option to dual boot, as the installation of XP Pro was made to the same partition as XP Home was installed, you will not have the option to dual boot....as far your PC is concerned now there is only one XP installed and that's the pro version.
Hope that helps
Anyway, nevermind that at the moment. Many PC's have different options to use their recovery partitions so it may be a case of calling the support number for the pc manafacturer's or even the shop where the machine was bought from. However, i'm aware some systems can be recovered by pressing F4 or F12 at boot....please bear in mind that doing this will in effect format the partition so if there is any data still on there that is vital, back it up before you start. Another thing to think about is some recovery options will restore the hard drive status to its original setting so if new partitions have been created on that drive, don't bank on them being there after you finish....I learnt the hard way. I partitioned my 120GB drive into 3 partitions (C,D & E) and when I used the recovery disk the first (and last time), I was advised that the C drive would be formatted blah, blah, blah so I thought no probs but it did the entire drive so everything on the D & E drives was lost although I was able to recover some with specialist software.
As for the option to dual boot, as the installation of XP Pro was made to the same partition as XP Home was installed, you will not have the option to dual boot....as far your PC is concerned now there is only one XP installed and that's the pro version.
Hope that helps
I have no idea, I am very frustrated with this particular person.
He refused to go buy an external enclosure so the files he wanted could be recovered BEFORE this attempt, so as far as I am concerned, he deserves what he gets, and thats the loss of his data.
he wont be happy though, there were pics on there apparently that he had not backed up yet, pics of his kids Bdays.
edit, I guess I could try some data recovery programs and see how that goes.
He refused to go buy an external enclosure so the files he wanted could be recovered BEFORE this attempt, so as far as I am concerned, he deserves what he gets, and thats the loss of his data.
he wont be happy though, there were pics on there apparently that he had not backed up yet, pics of his kids Bdays.
edit, I guess I could try some data recovery programs and see how that goes.
Before you do anything drastic don't let your frustration get the better of your friendship as I know I would be devastated if I lost pics of my children. I take it that you're able to boot into XP at the moment? If so, it won't take you too long to back up things like pictures to a cd or even a dvd....even if your friend loses emails and some other files, at least he'll have the important stuff available and he'll have you to thank for it
I can boot into XP Pro, none of the stuff from the XP home install is there.
and I know I will be blamed for the loss of data, even though he is the one that deleted his system32/config file, that told me he had pro instead of home, and refused to go get an external enclosure so we could get all his data off it before trying to repair it.
and I know I will be blamed for the loss of data, even though he is the one that deleted his system32/config file, that told me he had pro instead of home, and refused to go get an external enclosure so we could get all his data off it before trying to repair it.
No probs....good luck
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