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Registry problem
I was in the process of doing some overdue clean-up on my HDD and after running virus scan, spyware scan and disc compression I thought I would run check disc. I knew the disc had some sector errors because I occasionaly got read error messages. When check disc got to section 4 (of 5) it ran into a registry problem that said a registry file was corrupt or missing and that the scan was stopped. And there it stayed.
After wating a considerable length of time with nothing happening and not being able to do anything else, I powered down for a restart. When I did a restart it would do nothing except show the big, blue Dell logo and then it goes to a black screen with an error message saying "A disk error occurred" and it gave me the typical options of abort, retry, etc. Of course nothing works and when I try a restart I get the same thing all over again.
Since I can not locate my boot disc I would like to know if it's possible to create a boot disc from another XP machine?
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Denny Denham
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May 8th, 2006 15:00
Any Dell XP CD of the same "flavor" (Home or Pro) that is on your system can be used on your computer.
pent7301
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May 10th, 2006 02:00
Message Edited by pent7301 on 08-06-200609:00 PM
MCOORL
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May 10th, 2006 10:00
pent7301
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May 10th, 2006 13:00
Message Edited by pent7301 on 08-06-200608:59 PM
MCOORL
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May 10th, 2006 14:00
No, it was not defrag. I ran compression because I had less than 3% of free space remaining on C and I couldn't find what was taking up all the space. When I ran it the free space ended up being close to 45%.
My understanding was that if you ran compression then the only problem it would cause would be that it had to "uncompress" the data that it was handling when you needed to work with it. If you're saying it's irreversable in that you can't "uncompress" what has been compressed so it could be stored as "uncompressed" then I can see what you're saying. If this isn't how it works then why would anyone want to compress something if they could never use it again? Why wouldn't you just delete it?
By the way - thanks for the discussion. I'm learning more in a conversation like this than I would in a week's worth or reading.
Denny Denham
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May 10th, 2006 15:00
You will be interested in the following excerpt from Windows XP Inside Out:
One of the many advantages of choosing the NTFS file system over FAT32 is that it offers on-the-fly compression. Don’t confuse this capability with the clunky and unreliable DriveSpace compression schemes found in Windows 95. The NTFS version is slick and essentially seamless. All you have to do is set an attribute for an NTFS file(or an entire folder), and Windows XP compresses it, decompressing it automatically when you open it.
pent7301
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May 10th, 2006 22:00
Message Edited by pent7301 on 08-06-200608:58 PM