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unless there's data on here you need to recover the best bet is the format &amp;&nbsp;fresh install. <br />
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If it takes a long time to run format then you have hardware issues. 1st suspect would be the drive.
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unless there's data on here you need to recover the best bet is the format & fresh install.

If it takes a long time to run format then you have hardware issues. 1st suspect would be the drive.

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and if the problems are recent, a system restore can help also<br />
but the best imo is a fresh install - format and restore, as you said
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and if the problems are recent, a system restore can help also
but the best imo is a fresh install - format and restore, as you said

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and run SFC also : &nbsp;<a href="http://www.updatexp.com/scannow-sfc.html" rel="ugc">http://www.updatexp.com/scannow-sfc.html</a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;SFC use in XP
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and run SFC also :  http://www.updatexp.com/scannow-sfc.html [http://www.updatexp.com/scannow-sfc.html]            SFC use in XP

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Thanks for trying, I hope your suggestions can help someone else, ended up formatting.
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Thanks for trying, I hope your suggestions can help someone else, ended up formatting.

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Thank you HKFuey. &nbsp;Pity you had to go to the extremes of formatting, but probably best in the long run.
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Thank you HKFuey.  Pity you had to go to the extremes of formatting, but probably best in the long run.

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I have a laptop which would not boot, I took out the disk, ran chkdsk/f and then ghosted it to a new disk.<br />
There are still problems e.g. the windows installer does not work and you cannot copy files from one older to another.<br />
Does anyone know of a good utility to fix these issues or should I just format and restore?
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I have a laptop which would not boot, I took out the disk, ran chkdsk/f and then ghosted it to a new disk.
There are still problems e.g. the windows installer does not work and you cannot copy files from one older to another.
Does anyone know of a good utility to fix these issues or should I just format and restore?

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