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    Would F11 System Recovery mess up my other partition?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by rockharder, Dec 21, 2006.

  1. rockharder

    rockharder Notebook Evangelist

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    I hate to say that but I finally mess up with my XP Home a little bit. Not much just thunderbird can't talk to gmail through 995 port anymore. I think the pop3 service was accidentally deleted from XP.

    Could someone tell me how to recover my pop3 and SMTP back without reinstall everything? :(

    If I have to do F11 recovery, will it mess up my Linux partition and GRUB boot loader?
     
    rockharder, Dec 21, 2006
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  2. vassil_98

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    Reinstall Microsoft Outlook...or use the i386 folder to reinstall Windows (this will preserve all programs and registry entries)

    I think the recovery will put an image on the hard drive and will erase anything you have anywhere on it.
     
    vassil_98, Dec 21, 2006
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  3. rockharder

    rockharder Notebook Evangelist

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    And also the IE is gone. I think I was hate it too much and finally delete it by accident. :D. But seems Outlook Express and IE are useful even I don't use them(huh, what's the logic).
     
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    Hm, you can try reinstalling IE and outlook express from Add/Remove Programs => Add/Remove Windows Components. I'm skeptical this would work (didn't work for me at one point) but still try it. Or you can download IE from Ms website and see if you can reinstall it.
    IE is deeply integrated in Windows. You may not use it but you cannot go without it.
     
    vassil_98, Dec 21, 2006
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  5. rockharder

    rockharder Notebook Evangelist

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    The add/remove programs doesn't work. I add IE/Outlook, but it shows 0 MB add. And the system is the same.
     
    rockharder, Dec 21, 2006
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    Can't you download IE from microsoft?
     
    gridtalker, Dec 21, 2006
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    I installed the IE7 but still the pop doesn't with it. And MS site tell me I have the latest outlook express and cannot install the old one. Is there any way to find Outlook Express 6 full install instead of SP1 or patch?
     
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    Outlook Express is included in IE7, it does not exist on its own.
    Try using POP3 with another client (like Microsoft Outlook or Firefox's email client)
     
    vassil_98, Dec 21, 2006
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    Nope, IE7 will not install a new outlook/pop3. I guess I got a black luck.

    So the bottom line is: anyone can tell me if the F11 System recovery will mess me up?
     
    rockharder, Dec 21, 2006
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    Have you tried reinstalling SMTP through "Add/Remove Windows Components" in "Add/Remove Programs" in Control Panel?
     
    spatialanomaly, Dec 21, 2006
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    I can't find such SMTP thing in Add/Remove Windows Component
     
    rockharder, Dec 22, 2006
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    Check this out. Obviously there's a way to recover only windows XP.
     
    vassil_98, Dec 22, 2006
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    It's there all right, but I don't believe that's your problem and you might make the situation worse than it currently is.

    Foolish question, but, do you have any restore points you can rollback to?
     
    spatialanomaly, Dec 22, 2006
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