windows xp clean install drivers problem?

December 31, 2009

i also forgot to mention that since the new install the text on the screen and the screen resolution seems to be going a bit strange. Ive tried all the different settings like 800×600 and it doesnt help. maybe something to do with missing drivers?
Hey i recently came home and found that my computer wouldn’t boot up and got stuck on the screen before log in.

I refused to ask for help and pay money at PC world so after i few days i was able to get all my files from the harddrive and i did a clean install with a spare windows xp disk.

Since then ive found that i cant play games and my graphics card isnt showing up, i think the sound is messed up aswell. I used an xp disk thats not from my PC so it doesnt have the drivers and i didnt get a disk with my computer because xp was already installed

Can anybody give any suggestions on how i could get my drivers working again?

thanks

Windows installation and seemingly whole harddrive ruined thanks to a retarded wireless adapter from netgear?

December 27, 2009

my dad bought the WG311 v3 wireless adapter from netgear for his computer. after installing the software it disabled user switching and logon…only the administrator that installed the software could logon. it said I had to uninstall the software so I did and next time I tried to find a way to just install the device driver without the software…well I did and then windows wouldent boot…it said NTLDR missing so I booted from the XP disc to do a repair…I ran bootfix…it didnt work. then I ran mbrfix(master boot record) and that didnt work…I also copied ntldr and ntdetect to root from XP cd. now here I am with the harddrive in my computer on vista and Im looking at the drive with computer management\disc management and it shows the drive as a single partition with 76.33GB FAT file system (which is correct) but if you explore the drive or check its properties it says there is only 10MB total space with 3.4MB used the only files on the drive are ntldr and ntdetect
wyntry is absolutely right(I especially like your reply to dwight lol) but I ran out of text space for the original question(evil 1000 character limit)…anyway as for that downloadable hotfix I did find that and wanted to use it but I made the mistake of researching the problem after trying to fix it myself and thanks to that wrongly installed driver I cant boot to windows to install the fix. thing is…I was going to reinstall XP but as I mentioned b4 even tho it is an 80GB HD and disc manager sees that…explorer itself only sees it as 10MB and when I go to install XP thats all it sees as well. so it wants me to format the drive but thats not an option for me as there are important things on the disc…is there a way to access the data so I can copy it to my HD’s on my computer so I can reformat the drive safely and then reinstall XP? that looks like what Im gonna have to end up doing…I just dont know how to access the "vanished" data on the drive…

How can I completely clean my PC of all virus and mal/adware and other malicious programs?

November 21, 2009

Short of getting a new harddrive.

I am installing a clean version of Windows XP Pro, my keyboard will not work half-way through the installation?

November 21, 2009

How can finish the installation when my keyboard or mouse will not work. All i need to do is select which language.

I do not want to have to restart the whole installation, just to have the same problem the second time.

I have a second harddrive, with my old OS on it. FYI.

Can you please help? What can I do?
So, is my system going to do the same thing if i start it over?

Windows Live Messenger Problem?

November 12, 2009

Okay. Let me tell explain what happened. First, I installed MSN Plus!", and then the Windows Live Messenger was acting strangely, like It’ll close by itself automatically for a few minutes, but when I try to open it again, It won’t open; I have to restart the computer to sign on. Then, Second: I tried to Uninstall the "MSN Plus!", but nothing changed, so I tried to Repairing the Windows Live Messenger, but nothing changed as well. So I had to Unstall the Windows Live Messenger, but it says It doesn’t exist, when I go to Add/Remove Programs, The Windows Live Messenger Icon is there, but the software isn’t. Finally, I tried to install it again, but it tells me that you already have Windows Live Messenger installed, then I tried to install the Beta Version of Windows Live Messenger, and tells me the same thing. I don’t know what to do. This is the first time happening, and I don’t want to restart the whole harddrive just because of a software. So Please Help. Thank You