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Old 01-05-2007, 05:45 PM
Eddy Visser
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XP Reinstall with no wipe. software still there but not usable

Is there a way to move softare around on the drive so I can use it again or
do I need to reinstall everything.
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Old 01-05-2007, 06:15 PM
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Re: XP Reinstall with no wipe. software still there but not usable

"Eddy Visser"wrote

> Is there a way to move softare around on the drive so I can use it again
> or
> do I need to reinstall everything.



How did you do the reinstall? If this was a repair install it should have
left applications intact. But I'm guessing you installed XP as a parallel
install, or to one partition while the applications were in another
partition? In that case the applications will have to be reinstalled from
original media. You might just want to start all over doing a clean
install, formatting the drive.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

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Old 01-05-2007, 06:30 PM
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RE: XP Reinstall with no wipe. software still there but not usable

Software needs to run on the volume it was set up to,if you want to move it,
uninstall,restart pc,reinstall to desired location.

"Eddy Visser" wrote:

> Is there a way to move softare around on the drive so I can use it again or
> do I need to reinstall everything.

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Old 01-05-2007, 08:00 PM
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RE: XP Reinstall with no wipe. software still there but not usable

Andrew E. wrote:

> Software needs to run on the volume it was set up to,if you want to move
> it,
> uninstall,restart pc,reinstall to desired location.
>
> "Eddy Visser" wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to move softare around on the drive so I can use it again
>> or do I need to reinstall everything.


Andrew, go away. You've obviously mixed up your meds.

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Old 01-05-2007, 08:00 PM
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Re: XP Reinstall with no wipe. software still there but not usable

=?Utf-8?B?RWRkeSBWaXNzZXI=?= wrote:
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> Is there a way to move softare around on the drive so I can use it again or
> do I need to reinstall everything.


Yes if it doesnt mate with windows.

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Old 01-18-2007, 06:15 PM
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Re: XP Reinstall with no wipe. software still there but not usable

Eddy Visser wrote:

> Is there a way to move softare around on the drive so I can use it again
> or do I need to reinstall everything.


Gotta reinstall everything. Thank Microsoft and Windows software developers
for introducing and adopting the "registry" concept instead of going with
tried-and-true text file method for storing configuration data.

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