saphire 199
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I have a question, I do not know if this is possible and I haven't really been able to find any results on the web to answer.
I had a corrupted XP installation. Tried to repair disk, boot, recover registry, no go. (The pc would not boot at all.) Tried to repair existing installation, no go. Before I did all this, I used a live CD to extract the user data from the HD. I copied the whole user folder. Now I have user folder with all the settings, favorites, desktop, etc. I had to format and reinstall OS, which is working fine. Now my question is - is there any way to "restore" the user folder so all its data is being pointed to without having to physically move/copy each individual folder(eg - favorites, desktop, etc) to the new user folder? I hope that makes sense. And thanks for any ideas.
Saphire199
I had a corrupted XP installation. Tried to repair disk, boot, recover registry, no go. (The pc would not boot at all.) Tried to repair existing installation, no go. Before I did all this, I used a live CD to extract the user data from the HD. I copied the whole user folder. Now I have user folder with all the settings, favorites, desktop, etc. I had to format and reinstall OS, which is working fine. Now my question is - is there any way to "restore" the user folder so all its data is being pointed to without having to physically move/copy each individual folder(eg - favorites, desktop, etc) to the new user folder? I hope that makes sense. And thanks for any ideas.
Saphire199
