Thanks seekforever for your thought. I am coming to appreciate the fact that "Documents and Settings" are or may be considered to be part of the...
Azdon, this is a great comment you make, and one that I have thought about myself, since my original attempt to restore the entire "documents and...
I borrowed a separate HD to do as you recommend, as an experiment, that doesn't risk my new HD with that now contains replaced programs. I will...
When I say I ruined XP OS, that is the conclusion drawn after several hours on phone with Dell Support. I am sure XP was on the new HD, as Dell...
Thanks Xpilot for your clarification. But wouldn't a (second) separate stand-alone HD accomplish the same goal of possible recovery, if the...
Thanks Xpilot for the advice. I was actually thinking along the same lines as I continue to try to restore my data somehow, someway. The back-up...
Thanks Bvolk for your post. I honestly cannot tell you an answer to your good question, but have moved past my trial to restote the entire c:\...
Thanks Mark and also all others who posted above. I did not proceed with any re-try, and instead opted to try Support-for-Pay with Acronis. They...
Thanks Weaz. Assuming that you are correct, that fact alone would eliminate my proposed next attempt to do the restore again, after first wiping...
Thanks for the feedback. My attempt to do a full restore of a full back-up failed. All the on-screen windows looked OK, and the progress window...
Dell Dimension 8300 HD apparently defective. Dell On-Site tech now installing new HD, and new Windows XP. I could do so, but was covered under...
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