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Edmundo
Edmundo asked in Computers & InternetSoftware · 1 decade ago

What Files come on a Windows XP Home Installation Disk?

I have an HP Media Center PC running Windows XP Home. Instead of giving me a Restore Disc or an Install Disc, all of the Restore and Installation files are saved on a Recovery Partition of the hard drive. I'm trying to make a bootable XP disc (Using UBCD4Win) and as I don't have the original installation disc, I'm not sure which files to use out of the Recovery Partition. In total the directory is about 6.5 GB and HP has their own Recovery Console on there as well, so i doubt it can possibly be all of the files, Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Update:

I can't get to Windows. Nor can I use the Recovery Console. Long story short, I got hit by some Malware, Windows would log-on to immediately log-off again, except for the Recovery Console, re-installed the backup registries so hopefully I could boot the system properly. Now I'm getting an lsass.exe error upon boot, and I can't log in to Recovery Console. If I can overwrite my new SAM file with the old one that might take care of the lsass.exe error, but in Puppy Linux the HD is read-only. I'm not sure if it will be that way unless Windows is able to boot successfully or not. Anyway, the HD is probably still infected which is why I was going to use UBCD4Win. To see if I can fix the registry problem and perhaps take care of the virus in one fell swoop. I don't think a Recovery disc will do the trick though because I already have access to Recovery Console, just no password.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    You do realize there's a recovery disc creator program in Windows, right? HP put it there for specifically this reason. It'll make the discs for you.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Well use Windows Restore insted of a 3rd party as its not asgood!

  • def420jam
    1 decade ago

    try using ubuntu live cd, back up all of your files, and after that nuke your hard drive and do a clean installation. all the best!

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