Thanks MiniMax. I found a workaround in 'Special Edition - Using Microsoft Windows XP Home' by Robert Cowart and Brian Knittel. I copied and pasted most of the contents of my old folder to the new folder (same name) set up under the new XP installation. This was a surprisingly simple and effective …

Thanks MiniMax - very useful. I will go ahead with a repair installation of the original - at least I thought I could ! I had a try just now, and the XP Home CD couldn't see the original (faulty) installation any more. It could earlier today (when I stupidly opted for a parallel install). The …

I made a mess of a repair installation of XP Home, and managed to install a new, parallel copy of XP in a different folder on the same partition. What I meant to do was do a repair install of course. Now I have a perfect installation (in Windows2) and a broken one, in c:\windows. Of course, all my …