Lost MSO-2k icons in resizing partition

everything works, but....


WinME with MS Office 2000.


A while ago I shrunk C: for whatever reason one may want to do so.

I did defrag, but some clump of data must have remained in the higher reaches of the drive. After the repartitioning, scandisk reported some unusable crud on the disk, which I saved, but could not rebuild nor read. It must have been a bit of binary something.

On reboot, all the special MS Office application shortcuts (the ones with lots of setting options etc.) had lost their icons and appeared as generic executables.

They still worked, but I could not point them to the corresponding icons.

I guess I must have destroyed the file(s) they picked their icons from. I found this so annoying that I substituted them with hand-made shortcuts.

What did I do wrong?

I have a C: backup.

Which file should I try to restore?

TIA!

 

Office 2000 has a repair feature like Internet Explorer. I'd give that a try first. Control panel\add-remove programs, choose MS Office 2000 and then choose to repair it.

 

Zanders suggestion should fix this normally.

But................

What do you mean by shrunk drive, what did you do? I am afraid you mean compress the drive with dblspace or drvspace.

Don't do this, this is old technology for when HDs were so small and expensive. Will slow down processor and therefore disk access.

If you did this then the big file was the compressed volume. And if you did in fact repartition (fdisk) and format it would not could not exist after this?

During a partition and format did either of these report an error?

After repartition did you do a fresh install or restore a backup?

If you restored a backup then it may have been curupted or something caused it to curupt during the restore, hence the problems reported by scandisk Because repartitioning and format came thru clean this usually means the HD is good.

My opinion, the repartition and format did not complete for some reason and the big file was the compressed volume file (of drvspace or dblspace) that was orphaned some way.

Mike