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Format and then a reinstall of XP?
Need to do reinstall - now that I have my code (thanks Dave)
XPS with RAID
everything backed up.
Should I do a format and install or just try a reinstall. Reason for doing is Adobe will not remove (tried it all, every fix/cheat/whatnot) and cannot read pdf files. Think just a fresh start smartest.
So format and then use the windows install disk or ???
rookyguy
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April 19th, 2008 15:00
tried everything and adobe, that nasty thing, tries to open it all online. Foxit fine on saved files on drive.
gotta be a way to associate foxit only to pdf files.
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April 19th, 2008 21:00
Did you even try the suggestions at the lnk in my prior post to remove Reader 7? It seems you may have a registry problem and/or a corrupted Reader plug-in for IE and Firefox. So the only way to fix this may be to remove Reader completely.
Ron
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April 19th, 2008 22:00
I sure did Ron - to no avail. Some others had sent me some ways they felt might be workarounds too - nothing worked. That software will not ever find its way on my reformatted system as long as I am alive.
At this point I am on my laptop, my XPS is open in the other room and I am yanking the RAID out and trying to figure out how to go with just one drive as a master. I'm sure I'll be back many many times tonight before this mess is up and running again.
Thanks for the help - wish that way would have worked out as it sure would have been simpler.
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April 20th, 2008 11:00
Hi, I recently reformatted my XPS 700 (XP SP2) with the XP SP2 reinstallation CD. The formatting part was fine but as it started to copy files from the disc, it kept saying that I could not copy the file. By the end there were about 30 DLL files that could not copy across. I then did this again with a different CD (but still XP SP2) and the same thing happened. As a result of the missing files I can not windows update and have corrupt drivers.
Someone said that there was a problem with the CD but if 2 CDs did not work then there probably is nothing wrong with the CDs
I also tried to reformat the computer with a XP SP1 CD but a blue screen came up.
Could advise me on what to do?