How to put my PC back

This forum is reserved for everything you want to talk about. It could be about programming, opinions, open source programs, development in general, or just cool stuff to share!
Post Reply
mrmarky2
Earned some good credits
Earned some good credits
Posts: 113
Joined: Fri Apr 04, 2008 1:02 pm

How to put my PC back

Post by mrmarky2 »

I was upgrading my pc, so I put my old hard drive into the new pc to copy things across. I couldn't access my files because I had a password on my old user. So I tried to boot in safe mode to change the ownership on the files.
Safe mode crashed when it started up, froze on a file called gag30kx.sys. So I tried to boot up in VGA mode, when I booted up the resoltution was really low, I change the ownership on the whole folder, copied the files across and rebooted.
Now everytime I boot up the pc, it boots up and it appears to be exactly the same as it was in VGA mode. I can change ownership on files, and I can't change screen resolution back.
Can anyone help on getting it to boot up properly, or does anyone no why safemode didn't work?

Thanks
Mark
Jorg
Moderator
Moderator
Posts: 3971
Joined: Fri Aug 27, 2004 9:38 pm
Location: Delft, Netherlands
Contact:

Post by Jorg »

It sounds to me that you need to repair your copy of windows. Put the CD/DVD in and run it in repair mode.

- Jorgen
Forensic Software Engineer
Netherlands Forensic Insitute
http://english.forensischinstituut.nl/
-------------------------------------
Jorg's WasteBucket
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jorgb/wb
mrmarky2
Earned some good credits
Earned some good credits
Posts: 113
Joined: Fri Apr 04, 2008 1:02 pm

Post by mrmarky2 »

Hey,

Thanks for the reply, I tried looking for the disks, but can't find them. I'll have to have a look for them. I did a registry clean as well which found over 100 errors, but still isn't working.

Mark
Post Reply