Vern, have you tried what Alan suggested? Pick install at the first option menu when you boot from the cd. It will then identify existing installations and give you the option of repairing the existing installation. It usually works great and you don't lose any data.
You can also do a system restore from the recovery console if that would help. Winxp help has all the commands. Ben Moore -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vern Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 10:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: PCWorks: restore console > You need to BOOT from the CD, you can't do this in Windows. Did this. > I've never had good luck with that, and I can't even remember > exactly how it works. When you boot from the CD you have an > option there somewhere of "Repair" or it may be "Recovery", and > if you only get to a DOS prompt after that, I think you can > type 'help' to get a list of commands. Right, you get a list of regular DOS commands. But you're not in real DOS, you're in Windows DOS. You see full long names if you do a DIR. >You can also just > reinstall from somewhere in that area before you "repair". Run > chkdsk from DOS and see if that will fix it. A full install wants to format the disk and she doesn't want to lose the address book on the drive. Next attempt is to load Linux (Copperix) or something like that, that runs off the CD. Hoping I'll be able to bypass the "access denied" that is prohibiting me now. My daughter and grand daughter each had separate user IDs and now can't get at the address book. Thanks ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
