XP Restore

For various reasons too complicated to go into I've had to restore WXPH on a Hewlett Packard Pavillion using the HP restore facility. The basic OS restore didn't work so I cloned the disk to another drive and then used the more agressive full restore which formats the drive back to the original factory settings.

I appreciate that I will have to reinstall all programmes again but what is the best method to recover the user settings? I plan to use the clone as a slave to copy documents etc. Is it as simple as copying the user files from the Documents and Settings folder to recover favourites, desktop etc? or this more likely to cause additional problems?

 

If you mean by user settings: folder views - desktop themes and the like which involve registry changes/settings, the answer is "pencil & paper ".

If you use IE, just copy the favorites folder back.

System Restore: below is my respones to someone that had a problem with it not working:

Regards - Charles

 

I am reading that you made a full factory restore to a new hard drive. If the old hard drive still works, you can slave it to the new hard drive. You can see the files, you can copy and paste them with Windows Explorer.

The My Documents and Favorites can be copy and pasted. The address book can be imported. You can copy the other files as necessary. I'm more a fan of copy and paste than MOVE. Things happen.

 

gengis--Just copying, as mentioned, should work in most cases. If you replace the new folders with the old, you will lose whatever is in the new folders, so copy the contents, not the folders themselves.
However, I am not sure whether copying will work for OE mail files and address book.
If not, you might want to consider the procedure here.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/270/6/70.ASP