Comp Messup

[Vietkid58]

Help me plz... I messed up my comp...

1. I have a sony desktop (so the drives are partitioned into a small C drive and a large D Drive)
2. i've always been installing to C Drive and now its full and it lags.
3. i'm uninstalling from c and installing to D drive so i can defrag C
4. i created system restore points before each item.
5. i uninstalled MS OFfice 2000 but it must have not uninstalled properly because shortcuts were left behind.
6. i didn't notice and went ahead and installed it again to my D drive
7. somehow my c drive got fuller also and the settings seem like i hadn't uninstalled it from C... yet the files are on my D drive...
8. i thought it didnt' work right so i ran my restore point to before uninstalling
9. something must have went wrong again because the program doesn't work, i can't uninstall, and i can't install
10. i ran another restore point and now, its installed on both c and d but with lots of errors, i can run it from C (directly) but i keep getting errors popping up saying it can't locate some files for install...

SOMEONE PLEASE HELP

 

[bigguy]

It looks like you should reinstall c drive. Format it and reinstall the o/s and all your programs.

 

[Vietkid58]

thats the thing, i'm trying to stay away from Reformating... i'll do that if there is no humanly way possible to fix it...

 

[Woolie]

ahh go for the reformat. I good wipe and reinstall is always healthy occasionally. I have never used system restore, mainly because i dont trust it that it will work

 

[bigguy]

I agree with this a good format and reinstall everything will do it wonders. Anything you dont want to lose transfer to your d drive or partition and just reformat c

ahh go for the reformat. I good wipe and reinstall is always healthy occasionally. I have never used system restore, mainly because i dont trust it that it will work

 

[MicrotechXP]

I also agree with them reformat it and your worrys are gone. Also reformat it so there is one drive not 2 becasue it will be easyer for you.

 

[bigguy]

He wants the 2 drives. Personally I run my hard drive partitioned so I can run longhorn and xp

 

[MicrotechXP]

Yes I do that also but if he dose not want to keep track of his hard drives 1 is the way to go.

 

[chaganlal1]

DO full system restore it works. When it goes into blue screen press i think f2 or f12 to get into it then put boot options to cdrom then put i nthe system restore cd. WARNING: you will loose everything you installed so burn that data on a cd first.

 

[Vietkid58]

if i reformat, how do i get one drive? the partion was there when i got comp and didnt know hwo to fix it

 

[nigelwong]

You can reformat just one drive. You can only get one main drive again by deleting both partitions and creating 2 again. If you want to stay away from these problems again, i'd suggest you just to have on main partition if your drive is under 40Gb.

 

[Vietkid58]

it seems like everyone is suggesting that i reformat... is there no other way to fix it?

how do i reformat so i only have 1 partition?

 

[Matthews255]

Reinstall Windows onto the C partition of the drive, that way the other partition is safe, thats what i do.

 

[Vietkid58]

doesn't taht give u like 2 different computers than? i'm trying to fix the error, not reformating my comp...