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| 601115 | 2007-10-13 12:38:00 | Trying to reinstall W2K using the guidelines from PCWorld (www.pcworld.com All works fine until I get to the part of having to copy files from the Administrator etc. It tells me that there is a Administrator folder (which is true) and also a Administrator.computername folder. This one is not there. I have some other ones like all users - all users.winnt - default user - default user.winnt and temp The important one I am missing is the administrator.computername Is there someone that can help me with this? Thanks SP |
bimmur (12919) | ||
| 601116 | 2007-10-13 17:30:00 | Where are your backups...you DID back up your valuable files...right? Are you trying to do this in a new partition or a clean install with archives? A little more info please.....and was this 2000 originally an upgrade or a clean full install..it makes a LOT of difference. 2000 (I think all are PRO-versions) are really nasty about upgrades from an older system and a fresh, clean full install. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 601117 | 2007-10-13 19:43:00 | Trying to reinstall W2K using the guidelines from PCWorld (www.pcworld.com All works fine until I get to the part of having to copy files from the Administrator etc. It tells me that there is a Administrator folder (which is true) and also a Administrator.computername folder. This one is not there. I have some other ones like all users - all users.winnt - default user - default user.winnt and temp The important one I am missing is the administrator.computername Is there someone that can help me with this? Thanks SPI have just checked this out on a Windows 2000 machine I have here. No folder called Administrator.insert-computer-name-here What are you wanting to do? Move files from an old install to a new one? |
lysdexic (12796) | ||
| 601118 | 2007-10-13 20:16:00 | You arent making the mistake of taking the instruction literally,are you? When it says administrator.computername, its asking for you to substitute the underlined with your computers name (usually found in control panel>system>computer name tab in XP, dunno about W2k) that identifies it on a network. Sorry, if you've realised that already:p | feersumendjinn (64) | ||
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