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"Yousuf Khan" <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On Feb 15, 2
4 pm, "ng_reader" <wilgrow...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Timely message.
> >
> > I just installed Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit on an older XP-Home
> machine.
> > The old windows directory was saved under windows old and the data
> stayed on
> > the data portion of the HD.
>
> Okay, that's good, that's the kind of thing I wanted to know. So the
> Windows directory got saved, what about the "program files" directory, and
> the "documents and settings" directory? Did they also get backed up?
>
> Also did you have to install from within Windows, or did you have to boot
> from CD and install?
>
> > But here is my twist. That Win7 CD is for a different computer, and I
> want
> > to "roll-back" to XP Home. Well, perhaps I ought explain what happened.
> >
> > The machine became corrupted by a virus, went into continuous reboot
> mode,
> > and would not work in any way shape or form. After trying Kaspersky and
> > BartPE to get a functioning machine and getting nowhere, I loaded the
> Win7
> > DVD.
>
> So I assume it got infected under XP rather than Win7?
>
> > Anyone have any good suggestions for getting past that Admin Password to
> > reinstall XP? I tried the password that was on XP and that wasn't
> > it....
>
> Here's the Microsoft official method:
>
> How to log on to your Windows XP-based computer if you forget your
> password or if your password expires
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321305
>
> Here's a bunch of others, most seem to be password crackers:
>
> win xp admin password reset - Google Search
> http://www.google.ca/search?q=win+x...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
>
> > So, Yousuf (Cat Stevens - is this you?), it will all work. However I
> > have
> > another problem on my hand.
>
> No, actually I may be dating myself here, but I've been Yousuf longer than
> he's been Yousuf. He's been around on Earth bit longer overall, but not as
> Yousuf.
>
> > And yeah it is odd that Windows 32 bit is sitting there right next to
> > Windows 64 bit. And everything is "pretty" accessible.
>
> I'd like to make the migration even simpler by using this utility:
>
> Upgrade XP to Windows 7, hassle-free — Zinstall
> http://www.zinstall.com/
>
> I've been carrying out an email conversation with them, and I asked them
> whether I should be making a dual-boot out of this thing, and they said
> specifically, "no, install it over top of the existing XP". So this may
> explain how they do it. It doesn't matter, I've managed to make a clone of
> my boot disk onto an external eSATA disk now, and I can conceivably go
> either way now, installing it overtop or dual-booting, both options are
> now available to me.
>
> Yousuf Khan
Hi there and read through most of your post and chuckled a bit. All the old
stuff was saved, not so much backed up. If you know "explorer" then you know
how to find it. Of course with an 80GB hard disk about half of it is now
packed with the data from the old XP install.
There was no way, no way, the machine was letting me back into Windows. So,
I just stuck the Win7 Disk in the DVD drive and the machine booted from it.
Nice. Of course the disk was a Vista Upgrade disk so I didn't think it would
work. But it did.
Yeah, I think I might look closer into the password hack things, but, my
guess the machine is no longer running XP, it thinks and runs only Win7 now.
So the way those things work it might be folly. I still have a couple of
weeks to fart around. Maybe more...
Cheerio.
Ted
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> On Feb 15, 2
4 pm, "ng_reader" <wilgrow...@hotmail.com> wrote:> > Timely message.
> >
> > I just installed Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit on an older XP-Home
> machine.
> > The old windows directory was saved under windows old and the data
> stayed on
> > the data portion of the HD.
>
> Okay, that's good, that's the kind of thing I wanted to know. So the
> Windows directory got saved, what about the "program files" directory, and
> the "documents and settings" directory? Did they also get backed up?
>
> Also did you have to install from within Windows, or did you have to boot
> from CD and install?
>
> > But here is my twist. That Win7 CD is for a different computer, and I
> want
> > to "roll-back" to XP Home. Well, perhaps I ought explain what happened.
> >
> > The machine became corrupted by a virus, went into continuous reboot
> mode,
> > and would not work in any way shape or form. After trying Kaspersky and
> > BartPE to get a functioning machine and getting nowhere, I loaded the
> Win7
> > DVD.
>
> So I assume it got infected under XP rather than Win7?
>
> > Anyone have any good suggestions for getting past that Admin Password to
> > reinstall XP? I tried the password that was on XP and that wasn't
> > it....
>
> Here's the Microsoft official method:
>
> How to log on to your Windows XP-based computer if you forget your
> password or if your password expires
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321305
>
> Here's a bunch of others, most seem to be password crackers:
>
> win xp admin password reset - Google Search
> http://www.google.ca/search?q=win+x...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
>
> > So, Yousuf (Cat Stevens - is this you?), it will all work. However I
> > have
> > another problem on my hand.
>
> No, actually I may be dating myself here, but I've been Yousuf longer than
> he's been Yousuf. He's been around on Earth bit longer overall, but not as
> Yousuf.
>
> > And yeah it is odd that Windows 32 bit is sitting there right next to
> > Windows 64 bit. And everything is "pretty" accessible.
>
> I'd like to make the migration even simpler by using this utility:
>
> Upgrade XP to Windows 7, hassle-free — Zinstall
> http://www.zinstall.com/
>
> I've been carrying out an email conversation with them, and I asked them
> whether I should be making a dual-boot out of this thing, and they said
> specifically, "no, install it over top of the existing XP". So this may
> explain how they do it. It doesn't matter, I've managed to make a clone of
> my boot disk onto an external eSATA disk now, and I can conceivably go
> either way now, installing it overtop or dual-booting, both options are
> now available to me.
>
> Yousuf Khan
Hi there and read through most of your post and chuckled a bit. All the old
stuff was saved, not so much backed up. If you know "explorer" then you know
how to find it. Of course with an 80GB hard disk about half of it is now
packed with the data from the old XP install.
There was no way, no way, the machine was letting me back into Windows. So,
I just stuck the Win7 Disk in the DVD drive and the machine booted from it.
Nice. Of course the disk was a Vista Upgrade disk so I didn't think it would
work. But it did.
Yeah, I think I might look closer into the password hack things, but, my
guess the machine is no longer running XP, it thinks and runs only Win7 now.
So the way those things work it might be folly. I still have a couple of
weeks to fart around. Maybe more...
Cheerio.
Ted