jakop92 Posted October 21, 2004 CID Share Posted October 21, 2004 Man since my hd fried and i did a recovery of all data i've been unable to unistall anything from the windows unistall tool. How can i fix the problem here? Please help, because i was thinking of unistalling some useless progs that have no other way to uninstall and mabye even sp2 but i have no options! Oh bwt heheheh sorry for the bad hand writing I write really bad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted October 21, 2004 CID Share Posted October 21, 2004 that is odd.. if you lost a hard drive i would just start fresh to begin with.. hopefully you have backed up all of your data before the failure.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unstable Posted October 21, 2004 CID Share Posted October 21, 2004 What Swimmer says is true. Copy your pertinent files off of the disk and do a reinstall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MICROWAVE Posted October 21, 2004 CID Share Posted October 21, 2004 welcome to the site,not sure what your O S is but if I remember right win 98 did this because it changed the name of your files......if your running Windows XP it has a repair option when you reinstall that should clear your problem,let us know what happens:):)I'm guessing its XP because it has some other problems in the add/remove window like blank areas.....there is a neat program that I have used for many years that will also remove them from the window (its not uninstalling) this software must be used with caution because you can really nuke your system and create a much bigger problem, and there is a novice console you can use...so here it is ....AGAIN USE CAUTION, have copy of your registry.....you can edit the name of pgm if you want or delete it,which is a better choice because I think the files are gone because there is no size next to the programs.. http://www.xteq.com x-setup is what you want no spyware and it free Microwave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
organ_shifter Posted October 21, 2004 CID Share Posted October 21, 2004 How can i fix the problem here? Please help' date=' because i was thinking of unistalling some useless progs that have no other way to uninstall and mabye even sp2 but i have no options![/quote'] I'm not sure about a fix, but if all you wanna do right now is uninstall a few useless programs, and in the event that MICROWAVE's recommened program doesn't do the trick, you can try this utility called "Your Uninstaller 2004 Pro". It works great performing it's main purpose of uninstalling, plus, it gives you a few other options that may be useful to you. Here is the download link: Your Uninstaller Pro Quick Pic: Check your pm for more important details! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakop92 Posted October 21, 2004 Author CID Share Posted October 21, 2004 Thank you for all the support! I will see later what i can do when i get some free time... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakop92 Posted October 22, 2004 Author CID Share Posted October 22, 2004 Well, i attemped 3 different versions of repairing. Windows xp home, windows xp media center edition and windows xp pro installation discs, and all 3 failed to let me install windows(well not reinstall whole thing, but just repair it). Seems like the recovery messed up some s tuff. I can't reformat the pc since its family pc, so are there any other solutions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingzero2309 Posted October 22, 2004 CID Share Posted October 22, 2004 um...why not just back up all ur imporant files and reformat? then you can just configure it back to how it was and put all the saved files back in plus, reformat=fresh start fresh starts are always nice, except for having to install all your drivers and software again, but hey, i think its worth it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakop92 Posted October 23, 2004 Author CID Share Posted October 23, 2004 family pc. Too many files to backup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeSel Posted October 23, 2004 CID Share Posted October 23, 2004 I think a FDISK an Format would be your only option! How about buying a bigger HDD an fitting that? That way you can keep your data on your old HDD an use you new one for you OS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakop92 Posted October 24, 2004 Author CID Share Posted October 24, 2004 I guess so but i don't got money pouring out of my pockets. At age 15 just barely got a job, i don't feel like wasting around half my paycheck just for a hd. I'll stick with the prob unless anyone's got a solution that doesn't involve money. Thanks for all the help thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Posted October 24, 2004 CID Share Posted October 24, 2004 did u try contacting microsoft tech support? ill bet theyd say to close all the windows and reboot and see if that helped. that all they ever tell me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakop92 Posted October 24, 2004 Author CID Share Posted October 24, 2004 Lol, I don't want to contact microsoft. Some family member installed a microsoft windows that doesn't have original cd key, and i don't want to risk it or anything. But i don't want to reinstall whole system to get back original windows packed with pc neither. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unstable Posted November 4, 2004 CID Share Posted November 4, 2004 The repair option in any version of windows is not very useful. All that is basically happening is it restores a few essential files if they are missing and pulls a backup of the registry out of a directory. And I don't even think that XP Pro does this from the setup disk anymore, you have to run recovery console and do it manually, and if you don't have a recent system restore/backup then you end up rolling back to first boot...and may end up having to install drivers again. Here's what you can do if you have the original disk that you installed the OS from. Pop the disk in. click start-->run type "CMD" press return. from command line type: SFC /SCANNOW Next, try installing something, then try uninstalling it. Install/Uninstall work? No? You're pretty much screwed then. Yes? Good, that just means the programs that are currently installed are missing their logs or something along those lines. If you're feeling really brave, you can go to program files and delete them. If you wanted to be a "REAL COOL GUY" you could unregister the DLL's by hand using regsvr32 -u from command line. Then fire up registry editor "regedit" from start-->run Go to HKLMSoftware and start blowing away the keys that pertain to the software that you just deleted. As mentioned about 100 times before, your best bet is to reinstall the OS entirely. If you don't have another hard disk...and you don't have a CD-Burner...which, hell...I haven't seen a computer without a CD-R in years...then what you could do is sign up for a bunch of free email accounts and email all the files to yourself. Reinstall the computer and go out and get the files. Remember...programs can be replaced, files cannot. The difference? A file is the output of a program...like a word doc or a spreadsheet or mom and dads tax files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeSel Posted November 4, 2004 CID Share Posted November 4, 2004 If it is simply unistalling apps that you want to do, then using a third party unistaller may solve your problems. AS you may know, each entry in that list is simply an entry in the registry. So if the registry is corrupt, then the list will be two! Windows can't fix this, as how does it know what you have installed? I could fix it if it was system components that where damaged but not third party software! I quite suprised no one has blamed SP2 yet, as it seems to get the blame for allot! As an IT Technician an applications programmer, I have personally rolled out SP2 to over 150 PC's without issue! At the end of the day, most IT Issues are down to user error or hardware failure. IE Corrupt registry is a common site on PC's where Start>Shutdown is not used. Switching the PC off by holding the power switch does more harm then good! Anyway!!!! There are ways to restore your registry manually. Yes, it's a pain in the arse, but..... Do you want to fix it or not? As I am not sure if you have sorted this yet, I am not going to post a soloution. If you want it, ask! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted November 4, 2004 CID Share Posted November 4, 2004 I hate sp2 for one reason.. spawning windows from hell... Why cant the firewall do its thing in the background? I pesonally do not run sp2 on my computer... I have this thing pretty locked down.. between updating with everything except sp2, a firewall, antivirus, spysweeper, and the sitting behind a router.. with not port forwarding... so NAT is my "hardware" firewall... Never had a problem.. But I would have to agree with you about the problems are either hardware or user releated.. I think the best commerical sums this up.. I think it is a Cisco commerical where the boss is talking to some lady about the network and how they got attacked... but the network took care of it before anything really happened.. Then the little kid comes out and tells her dad that she download a sweet game.. User error.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luwigie Posted November 4, 2004 CID Share Posted November 4, 2004 then what you could do is sign up for a bunch of free email accounts and email all the files to yourself. Reinstall the computer and go out and get the files. Or PM me for a gmail account. Then you can get a shell extension and use Gmail as a regular windows drive... The only problem is that the file sizes are limited to 10 megabytes... You do have a gig of space... What I would do is make a folder with all of the data that you want to back up, then get winrar (http://www.rarlabs.com) and create a compressed rar compilation with the segments limited to 10 MBs. Then once that finishes, start the upload over night by dragging all of the files into the Gmail drive and there you go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shug7272 Posted November 5, 2004 CID Share Posted November 5, 2004 Your Uninstaller is the BOMB too bad more people dont know about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Posted November 7, 2004 CID Share Posted November 7, 2004 Or PM me for a gmail account. Then you can get a shell extension and use Gmail as a regular windows drive... The only problem is that the file sizes are limited to 10 megabytes... You do have a gig of space... What I would do is make a folder with all of the data that you want to back up, then get winrar (http://www.rarlabs.com) and create a compressed rar compilation with the segments limited to 10 MBs. Then once that finishes, start the upload over night by dragging all of the files into the Gmail drive and there you go. sweet thanks dude, ive been trying to think about a way to get photoshop to my laptop since my home cpus cdr drive broke. niiiiice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unstable Posted November 7, 2004 CID Share Posted November 7, 2004 sweet thanks dude, ive been trying to think about a way to get photoshop to my laptop since my home cpus cdr drive broke. niiiiice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakop92 Posted November 7, 2004 Author CID Share Posted November 7, 2004 Offtopic. Please swap back to original topic.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unstable Posted November 8, 2004 CID Share Posted November 8, 2004 basically bro, your shit is fucked and rather than spend any time or effort trying to fix this problem you should just blow the entire filesystem away and start fresh. Since you don't have a 2nd disk, and you never said whether you had a CD Burner...we were discussing other ways to move all the unreplaceable files back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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