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my WinXP computer is permanently f***ed

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Chooco:
i kept getting message about cannot read memory and cannot write memory. i asked the really smart guy where i bought the computer and he said it's most likely not a memory problem but a Windows problem and possibly a virus so i should just re-install Windows. i put the Windows CD in the drive and i get into the install procedure. it says that i cannot just "re-install" windows by overwriting windows but i would have to do a fresh install then it tells me i can't run 2 operating systems on the same partition so i would have to format the partion which is the entire hard drive.

some of the stuff i have on this computer works and i have no clue how so i basically CANNOT format. things like MySQL, it has no users yet my forum can still log in and write it.....no problems there (yet). PHP is installed somehow and i don't remember how i did it.

so now my computer has memory errors ever few hours which causes my game server to crash and not restart because the error message is still up and i can't fix the problem because it will make my website all f***ed up.

well isn't this just great.

Calum:
yup,

i'm afraid the people here are unlikely to be able to help you, which is unfortunate, maybe you could use a dynamic resizing tool to make your existing partition smaller, then install something else on the free space you just made at the end of the drive, then dual boot? this way, you can work out how to do all the stuff you need to do, while still leaving XP on your machine, set up the way it is in the meantime...

By the sounds of it though, that's not going to be much help either...

lazygamer:
I must confirm something. Is this Windows XP fault in your opinion?

Im just curious what everyone has to say here. Can any form of software cause permanant irrepairable damage to the hardware aspect of the computer?

Ice-9:
I don't know for sure if it's the os's fault but from all I hear XP definitely has a tendency of running fine in the beginning and screwing up after a few months        

Almost everyone I know of that had XPee installed either installed Linux or Win2K over it.
Only a few of them claim that Xpee runs games better than Win2K, although Quake 2,3, and Jedi Knight run perfectly on my win2K box.
I still didn't manage to get Quake 3 running with sound in Linux     :(  

Couldn't you install a dual boot system with RedHat, let it resize your Windows partition and write your data away on a spare partition before you re-install XPee (if you really have to)?

[ July 04, 2002: Message edited by: Ice9 ] f**cking typos  

[ July 04, 2002: Message edited by: Ice9 ]

TheQuirk:
I have a slighty different solutions.

Download a floppy based linux from another computer. Write it onto a floppy. Put it in the XP computer and reboot. Mount the harddrive, and upload the contents you need to a webserver. Reinstall windows and download your files from the webserver.

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