"Malke" <malke@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> Tuttle wrote:
>
> > Hard drive failure. There were bad sectors on the hard drive so I imaged
> > the drive, installed a new drive, and restored the disk image to the
> > replacement drive. (My friend, the laptop's owner, did not have recent
> > backups so I wanted to salvage his data and even entire system if I
> > could.) That's why I wonder if perhaps some important file was damaged
in
> > a bad sector when the previous disk was failing and so the damaged file
> > would have been restored to the new disk.
> >
> > Since the restore to new drive, everything works as it should, as it did
> > before the disk failure, except for the odd problems I described.
>
> > I think it is clean. It runs Norton Systemworks with Norton Anti Virus
and
> > spyware protection and firewall, and periodically has scans from other
> > tools. Since this problem, it has had full system scans from several
tools
> > to look for viruses and malware. It's clearn. Here's what it's been
> > checked with since this problem:
> >
> > Norton Anti Virus
> > Norton Systemworks scans for spyware, etc.
> > Norton Security Scan
> > McAfee FreeScan
> > Symantec Security Check
> > Webroot Spy Sweeper
> > Trend Micro HouseCall
> > CCleaner
>
> > Dell Inspiron 6000d, built October, 2005 (now two and a half years old)
> > Intel Pentium M 1.73 GHz. 1 GB RAM. 60 GB Ultra ATA hard drive.
> > New replacement 60 GB Ultra ATA hard drive.
> > 15.4 inch WSXGA+
> > ATI Mobility Radeon X300 64MB HyperMemory Video Card
> > Intel PRO/Wireless 2915 Internal Wireless (802.11a/b/g54Mbps)
>
> There's no one magic file that will help you. Probably there was some sort
> of corruption in the image you applied. There's no way of knowing what it
> is.
The image is valid, not corrupted. It has been verified. However, while the
image archive itself is valid, some files contained in it could be
corrupted. If a system file (or any file) became corrupted during the disk
failure, then the image would capture the current corrupted state of that
file. That's what I think may have happened.
> I'd do a few things:
>
> 1. Uninstall/reinstall the video drivers. Test.
Okay, I'll try that.
> If that doesn't work,
> 2. Reinstall all the core system fonts:
When you say "core", you mean just the fonts that came with XP? Or do you
mean all fonts, since I see that you included links to lists of fonts
shipped with MS Office and other MS applications?
Thanks very much for the assistance.
> Fonts - Replace All (Kelly Theriot) -
> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_f.htm
>
> Fonts Supplied with Windows XP -
> http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/winxp.htm
> How to Determine the Default Windows Fonts -
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;Q254768
> TrueType Fonts Shipped with Microsoft Applications -
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;Q123084
> Fonts that are installed with Microsoft Office -
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;837463
>
> 3. If none of that works, then I'd back up his data and do a clean
install.
>
> Malke
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