Re-installing problems

[Guest pjbruce]

I recently had a crash due to Norton Ghost. Re-installed winxp fresh

installation but now trying to install other programs and some of them want

to install to my old user account e.g. C:\Documents and settings\wrong

user\local settings\application data etc.

 

Anyone with ideas?

[Guest PD43]

Re: Re-installing problems

 

pjbruce <pjbruce@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I recently had a crash due to Norton Ghost. Re-installed winxp fresh

>installation but now trying to install other programs and some of them want

>to install to my old user account e.g. C:\Documents and settings\wrong

>user\local settings\application data etc.

>

>Anyone with ideas?

 

Just a question: if you did a "fresh installation" - which would mean

a clean installation - the system shouldn't have any "old user

account".

 

Do you mean you did a "repair installation"?

[Guest pjbruce]

Re: Re-installing problems

 

Sorry, yes of course a repair installation.

 

"PD43" wrote:

> pjbruce <pjbruce@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>

> >I recently had a crash due to Norton Ghost. Re-installed winxp fresh

> >installation but now trying to install other programs and some of them want

> >to install to my old user account e.g. C:\Documents and settings\wrong

> >user\local settings\application data etc.

> >

> >Anyone with ideas?

>

> Just a question: if you did a "fresh installation" - which would mean

> a clean installation - the system shouldn't have any "old user

> account".

>

> Do you mean you did a "repair installation"?

>

[Guest Lem]

Re: Re-installing problems

 

pjbruce wrote:

> Sorry, yes of course a repair installation.

>

> "PD43" wrote:

>

>> pjbruce <pjbruce@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>>

>>> I recently had a crash due to Norton Ghost. Re-installed winxp fresh

>>> installation but now trying to install other programs and some of them want

>>> to install to my old user account e.g. C:\Documents and settings\wrong

>>> user\local settings\application data etc.

>>>

>>> Anyone with ideas?

>> Just a question: if you did a "fresh installation" - which would mean

>> a clean installation - the system shouldn't have any "old user

>> account".

>>

>> Do you mean you did a "repair installation"?

>>

 

There is still something odd about your description.

 

As PD43 suggests, a "fresh install" (what usually is called a "clean

install") formats the drive and thus there wouldn't be any old user

accounts present.

 

A "repair install" will replace the system files with the files on the

XP CD used for the Repair Install, but *should* leave your applications

and settings intact. If that's what you did, you shouldn't have to

reinstall your applications.

 

If you decided to reinstall Windows because you attempted to restore

your disk from a corrupted Ghost image (and you don't have another,

good, Ghost image to use), you probably should (a) back up whatever data

files you can and then (b) do a clean install. Following the clean

install, you can reinstall your applications and data to wherever you like.

 

--

Lem -- MS-MVP

 

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