Guest pjbruce Posted June 11, 2008 Posted June 11, 2008 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 Posted June 11, 2008 Posted June 11, 2008 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 Posted June 11, 2008 Posted June 11, 2008 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 Posted June 11, 2008 Posted June 11, 2008 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 To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm
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