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> w_tomwrote:
Welcome to how we learn. Copy the backup disk to the disk
> that was recently restored with Windows - or even copy that
> backup disk to a third blank hard disk. IOW first try to make
> backups in numerous ways. Next use programs fixmbr and
> fixboot to try to install master boot software on that backup
> disk.
>
> The MBR is unique for each disk. MBR installation programs
> install with unique numbers for that particular disk drive.
> The fixmbr and fixboot programs are installing customize boot
> software on the disk much like the SYS program in DOS made
> disks uniquely bootable.
>
> This is but a sliver of what you need understand or what may
> be required to (if it is possible) recover those programs. I
> wish you luck. If the Registry from the original disk was not
> copied to the backup disk, well, you have problem.
>
> Demonstrated is why one does not try to fix things until
> first learning what the problem are. One must collect and
> record all significant data and symptoms before trying to fix
> anything. This concept is not well understood among PC users
> who love to wildly speculate and then fix things - sometimes
> only complicating what was a simple solution. Ahhh... but we
> all have to learn by example. Best I can do is point you in a
> direction based upon symptoms posted. You did not even
> identify what (or why) the original disk was "messed up".
> That too may have been essential information. More often a
> 'messed up' disk is easily fixed up front if first taking a
> long time to collect data and relevant symptoms. The
> alternative is called shotgunning - how scam auto mechanics
> also fix cars.
>
> AEsco48 wrote:
> we bought two dell dim 3000's recently...one of them got messed up
so
> my father backed everything up and put in the wind XP CD thinking
it
> was a recovery CD, it deleted everything and installed just win
> XP...but now he does not have the other programs the computer
> brought....dell support said im scr**ed b\c we deleted
> everything...and they cant give me the other software, just whats
on
> the other CD.....so i cloned the 2nd identical computer and tried
to
> do the Dell PC Restore but it said " Unsupported Change in your
> Master boot record"
>
> how can i fix this, just want to get the computer like if it was
new
> out of the box (less then 2 weeks ago)
The new clone HD works fine, windows loads up everything works minus
when i try the CTRL F11...i get the " Unsupported Change in your
Master boot record"
i will try the Fixboot and Fixmbr and let you know....
here is the story on the "messed up"...the computer was working fine
expet it would not let me update a tax file in Quickbooks pro...and
the computer was brand new, had very little data that needed to be
backed up so i figured if i could just do a recovery on the whole
computer and have it just like it came out of the box i would be 100%
sure it would solve my problem...
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