I stumbled upon a Windows XP drive that needed repairing a while back, and after months of troubleshooting, I got it working. I created a fresh install and then manually placed in each folder from the broken installation, which took a couple of days to accomplish.
However, two problems have arisen:
#1: My XP installation does not boot unless I use an external USB. Both of the boot.ini files point to the same partition and I tried replacing the rest of the boot files, but nothing works.
#2: When I got in using the USB, my User folder from the donor installation was still there. So I thought, "No biggie! I'll just delete it and it'll load into the other profile." The thing is, it instead RE-CREATED it, which I didn't even know was possible. Can anyone explain to me how to fix this?
Here's a simplified explanation:
User A and B are present.OWNER wants to load into User B and nothing else.OWNER deletes User A.OS revives User A and refuses to recognize User B.Can anyone help me with these problems? Thanks!