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acro-ii:
Yes it IS working.  I did 2 yesterday, and both went fine.

 ;D

I do agree, it isn't guaranteed to work, but it is my FIRST choice, as it is so much easier than reloading.  If it does not work, I'm only out about 30 minutes.  If it does, it saves me twice that much!



--- Quote from: MrMojoZ on September 24, 2007, 12:53:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: acro-ii on September 24, 2007, 11:06:44 am ---You are.
Boot from XP CD with same service pack revision as is on your machine.
Go past the setup option to repair using recovery console.
It scans for the current os.
Then you get a repair option.
It works perfectly.  That's how I fix 90% of the pcs that poeple bring into my office.

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This is not currently working, once you finish the repair you can no longer install windows updates. Have you done a repair in the past month? I've seen about seven fail.

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xmenxmen:

--- Quote from: XyloSesame on September 25, 2007, 12:53:04 am ---
--- Quote from: Avrus on September 24, 2007, 11:35:38 pm ---How many of you are hardcore enough to remember?

xcopy32 /s /e /r /h /c /k /y


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And how many have graduated to robocopy?

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yet again, I don't.   :laugh:  But I surely remember ncopy and hcopy.

xmenxmen:

--- Quote from: leapinlew on September 24, 2007, 08:03:36 pm ---
--- Quote from: xmenxmen on September 24, 2007, 06:57:46 pm ---
--- Quote from: leapinlew on September 24, 2007, 02:34:18 pm ---
--- Quote from: xmenxmen on September 24, 2007, 02:32:51 pm ---This is so true.  Either everyone on here are quite in experience to this stuff or just have crappy luck. 

And to the one mentioning HAL, if you look at his system, you can see that he's going from a 1ghz to a 1.7ghz, both are single cpu and either one has more than one core, so HAL is not a problem!

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Why don't you tell me what you think HAL means, and then I'll tell you what it really means.

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I don't know, so why don't u tell me.   :laugh:  And while you are at it, tell me how many of those home pc that are not "ACPI". 

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I know you don't know.... everyone knows you don't know.  :)

Pretty much every machine I've been working on for the last half a dozen years or so have been ACPI compliant. Not sure what that has to do with what were talking about, but whatever. If you've had luck swapping drives around from one computer to another good for you. I've tried to do it plenty of times and it pretty much always bombs out unless the recipient computer has identical hardware. 

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Generally I would take the time to educate, but this case, I will just won't.  If you can't figure out what changes actually cause the replace of the HAL and what doesn't, that's really your problem. 

If u are calling bull or whatever u like to call, that's good for you.  There's reason why some can do certain thing better than other.  I will leave it at that.

That's all my comment for this thread..  :dizzy:

MrMojoZ:

--- Quote from: xmenxmen on September 25, 2007, 11:02:18 am ---That's all my comment for this thread..  :dizzy:

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Good, while hilarious it is best to keep Mis-information to a minimum. The amount of cores don't cause the swap out blue screen, only the change in controllers.

MrMojoZ:

--- Quote from: acro-ii on September 25, 2007, 09:25:35 am ---Yes it IS working.  I did 2 yesterday, and both went fine.

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Verify that windows updates can still install.

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