Problems with windows?

Question

I recently had trouble with a file on my primary hard drive with a system 32 file. i tried to repair this but was not succesful. I use 2 HD's one slave and one master, i decided to switch the roles as i have windows installed on both, i was able to log into windows on my slave hard drive and was going to transfer all essential folders and files from my master over to my slave, then reinstall windows onto my master and transfer the files and folders back over to the correct destination. is this the best thing to do, and would it now be worth installing vista onto the master hard drive. and advice would be great, thanks.

Answer 1

Your thoughts are very good except for installing Vista. Vista is not ready for prime time yet. Still missing all kinds of legacy drivers. Do not install Vista. Proceed with your initial recovery plan.

Answer 2

Before formatting the hard drive, try go to Start > Run > and type in: sfc /scannow

This will run a utility which check all of the required system files on your computer and repairs any that are not correct or corrupted. You will need the XP CD for the program to copy any files it need to replace.

That may resolve the issue without doing a full Windows reinstall

Good luck....

Answer 3

I hear Vista's good, I don't have it myself, but I know a bunch of programmers who says it's good.
As for your files, keep your slave drive as a extra drive (so uninstall Windows off it and use it as a safe drive to keep all your files while keeping Windows on the master; it's what I've done).
Just make a shortcut to the drive on your Desktop.

Flux.

Answer 4

do the trafering like you said. don't get into the vista yet, too early and lots of drivers not working or supported on vista yet. give vista another 6 months.

Answer 5

U need only 1 Windows ... and thats Win 2000 Pro