What A Mess!

[Prophet]

Had a VIRUS that slipped thru AVG and McAfee BOTH!

Tried to go back to a previous setup after the Virus was deleted. WIN XP PRO will not completely initialize so some files are obviousy damaged.

Lucky for me I had my old Harddrive as D:\ and WIN 98se was loaded because I could no longer boot to WIN XP PRO on C:\

I reversed the boot up in the BIOS (00--->01).
Now my c: is d: and d: is c:

I was wonderig if I can copy WIN XP PRO over itself on the original harddrive or if WIN 98se will redirect the install onto it's own disk?

Basically, will I be able to direct the install (setup) to the Disk of my choice?

Thanks.

[SuperSparks]

Yes, you'll get the choice of where to install XP, that won't be a problem.

[Prophet]

Didn't give me a choice and it wiped out my installation of WIN 98SE even though I instructed it to create a new install and preserve my old files.

[Prophet]

Well, my files are still on the drive, altho they're compressed by NTFS but the icons are missing on the desktop and I've lost my Favorites File in IE.

Live and learn, I suppose.

Maybe I should've used FAT instead of NTFS, huh?

[the_scotsman]

When you install XP, you get the option to choose new install and keep files, yes...but around that same part of setup, it also has a part that lets you choose the location of the installation...If i remember, its not a very obvious option.