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XP Resuscitated

Agent Orange

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I wanted to install Windows Vista on my XP machine as dual booter on drive D. I wasn't paying attention and somehow Vista over wrote XP and installed itself on Drive C, atop of XP. I noticed what was going on and was taken aback when a window popped up informing me that XP was now XP.bak. You know that sinking feeling and finally a gut wrenching realization that all of your tuning and tlc just went down the drain. So, there it sat for about 3 months or so before I got around to to reinstalling XP.

Fortunately, I had the ASR restore console 3.5 floppy available and I thought I would give it a shot. I put the XP CD in the CDROM, booted off the ASR floppy, and I selected "Restore". To my surprise, the restore routine found XP.bak. The restore routine went smoothly and XP booted to the correct desktop. Even Mozilla was able to connect. A good word for Vista in that it saw XP and made a backup on its own. I've used the XP ASR console on many occasions to fix various problems, but this is the 1st time for a full restore, and I couldn't be happier. Morale to this story is look before you leap.
 
I upgraded to windows 11 on a work computer a few days ago to see if it would fix a problem I was having (not very likely, but the next step was going to be having it reimaged anyway). It didn’t work. I was successfully able to back out to windows 10. I was impressed. Of course windows 10 was still broken so I’m still going to need to get it reimaged, but it seems identical to how it was before the upgrade.
 
I’ve known they’ve had the feature for a while. I’ve done enough installs and upgrades over the years that I’ve seen the windows.old folder, etc.

What impressed me was the feature actually working when I needed it to, not that it’s there. :)
 
By selecting the W11 Advanced Startup Options menu (*) you can select to reinstall W11 without disturbing major settings; i.e. folders, etc. I did that a little while back and all is well with my big gamer now.

(*) Quickest way is to hold down L Shift while selecting restart.
 
jafir said:
I upgraded to windows 11 on a work computer a few days ago to see if it would fix a problem I was having (not very likely, but the next step was going to be having it reimaged anyway). It didn’t work. I was successfully able to back out to windows 10. I was impressed. Of course windows 10 was still broken so I’m still going to need to get it reimaged, but it seems identical to how it was before the upgrade.
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Bell, a little late on this but I wonder if you could clarify what you meant when you said that you were reinstalling with a W11 image. Please elaborate on the image. Why not try the MS W10 install routine and see how it goes?
 
It’s my employer’s laptop, so I assume they have a default image that they use, since it runs enterprise instead of professional.

I’ve tried the ISO that you can download from Microsoft and when I join it to the work domain something gets messed up, so I’m guessing their enterprise image has something in it that a normal professional install does not.

I’ll probably just send it back to them and have it reimaged instead of messing with it. I don’t want to get accused of hacking. ;)
 
jafir said:
It’s my employer’s laptop, so I assume they have a default image that they use, since it runs enterprise instead of professional.

I’ve tried the ISO that you can download from Microsoft and when I join it to the work domain something gets messed up, so I’m guessing their enterprise image has something in it that a normal professional install does not.

I’ll probably just send it back to them and have it reimaged instead of messing with it. I don’t want to get accused of hacking. ;)
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Not a bad idea but if you can manage it, try and find what the problems where. BTW, enterprise editions are always nice if you can get one.
 
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