everything is working now. it seems that i needed to have SP2 installed on the reformatted drive before it would take the data... so it's ok...
great... thanks, i was afraid of that.
despite all of your valuable advice, i decided to just wipe it clean and start over. however, i have a new problem. this is probably the wrong...
Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.0 Scan saved at 10:31:49 PM, on 1/12/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00...
i have some odd things going on. although mcafee is up to date, i had a trojan horse and some other things. in control panel, the very first entry...
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