The Phoenix
Sep 30th, 2005, 07:36 PM
Well, I did a baaad thing.
My Computer was booting up and running horrendously slow. I mean like it would take it 5-10 minutes to comple the boot up. And its not for lack of power, I have a fairly high-end system.
So, I tried various methods of fixing it, but eventually decided to go for reinstalling Windows. I'm a moderately skilled self-taught computer geek, so it should've been no trouble. However, I have several things that I wanted to save and the like so my plan was to simply repair the existing installation. I thought that I had done this in the past, somehow used the XP Home disc to reinstall missing/damaged components, but it had been a long time.
I go to repair it, and it only leads to a DOS-like "C:\WINDOWS" prompt. I had no idea what I was supposed to do, but being an old DOS user myself, I played around for a while before realizing that I did indeed have not a clue what to do. So I went back and started over. This time I thought that I could just install windows over the old installation, thus replacing any bad files. I had found a virus the day before this trouble started, and thought that maybe it had damaged some important windows files or some such.
Anyway, that didn't work. It said that it could possibly delete the "My Documents" folder, which has some files that MUST be saved at all costs. (Wedding photos, my writing projects(I'm an amatuer writer of Sci-Fi and the like), etc) So I chose against doing that, and decided to install a second instance of Windows in a new folder.
That done, I figured I'd just take the all-important documents and sace them, then install windows over the original installation, and all would be solved...
Heh, well now I'm stuck. I can't access the My Documents folder for that user, it just says "Access Denied" every time. I HAVE to get into that folder, but I don't know how. I'm open to ANY methods, please help me.
My Computer was booting up and running horrendously slow. I mean like it would take it 5-10 minutes to comple the boot up. And its not for lack of power, I have a fairly high-end system.
So, I tried various methods of fixing it, but eventually decided to go for reinstalling Windows. I'm a moderately skilled self-taught computer geek, so it should've been no trouble. However, I have several things that I wanted to save and the like so my plan was to simply repair the existing installation. I thought that I had done this in the past, somehow used the XP Home disc to reinstall missing/damaged components, but it had been a long time.
I go to repair it, and it only leads to a DOS-like "C:\WINDOWS" prompt. I had no idea what I was supposed to do, but being an old DOS user myself, I played around for a while before realizing that I did indeed have not a clue what to do. So I went back and started over. This time I thought that I could just install windows over the old installation, thus replacing any bad files. I had found a virus the day before this trouble started, and thought that maybe it had damaged some important windows files or some such.
Anyway, that didn't work. It said that it could possibly delete the "My Documents" folder, which has some files that MUST be saved at all costs. (Wedding photos, my writing projects(I'm an amatuer writer of Sci-Fi and the like), etc) So I chose against doing that, and decided to install a second instance of Windows in a new folder.
That done, I figured I'd just take the all-important documents and sace them, then install windows over the original installation, and all would be solved...
Heh, well now I'm stuck. I can't access the My Documents folder for that user, it just says "Access Denied" every time. I HAVE to get into that folder, but I don't know how. I'm open to ANY methods, please help me.