Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 22:10:50 -0800 From: John Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Please Help Me With New Hard Drive Install
Well, I am almost there but not quite.
Background - my L100's hard drive started making loud clicking sounds, I purchased a new drive, connected both old and new drives to an IDE cable in my desktop, and used Norton Ghost to clone the c: and d: partitions of the old drive including MBR to c: and d: partitions of the new drive. This list helped me do that. When I booted the desktop, Windows did a "consistency check" on the old drive, found problems in the startup folder (various *.lnk files referred to invalid files), and fixed those problems - that occurred before I used Ghost.
Anyway, when I installed the new cloned drive in the Lib, the first time booting Windows also did a consistency check, the next time Windows XP booted normally and I went ahead and activated it. However, when I click "Start" my Start Menu has no applications pinned to it, and the "Programs" it is also empty. In other words, the left side of the Start Menu is empty, while the right side shows the usual my Documents, Control Panel, Run, Search, Help, and so on. The apps are in the c:\programs folder, but it seems that all the shortcuts in the Start Menu are gone.
Is there any easy way to fix this? Or should I simply reinstall Win XP from scratch? I'm sort of loath to do the latter as I worry the Win XP activation will give me trouble - maybe it'll think I'm trying to use this copy of Win XP on a second computer. I cannot restore to an earlier point as I'd turned that feature off to save memory.
