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"Computer Management" MMC needs repair.

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by sms2000

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Hello gentlemen, I'm a newbee here.
So, I gave a question and need some help if You please...

I'm running WinXP/SP2. When I tried to install O&O Defrag it worked fine. I decided not to buy and uninstalled it.
What I found later, that my main MMC snap-in "Computer Management" lost all the items under the "Storage" folder.
No more "Removable Storage", "Disk Defragmenter" and "Disk Management".

I have a full system backup but it a little too outdated. And reformatting and reinstalling XP is out of question completly.

Could You recommned me any tool (free or not) to edit the MMC snap-ins? Or any other method to repair?

Yours...

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by oh smeg

But I would first suggest that a full backup be done just in case of problems. Will that be a Problem?

If not you can do a In Place Install by following the directions here

http://tinyurl.com/g4bv8

As this is Pro it's possible that EFS is in use so make sure that you pick up a copy of the Encryption Key by following the directions here before performing a In Place Install

http://tinyurl.com/3cd8hf

And if you can not access your data you'll need to Take Ownership of the Files by following the directions here

http://tinyurl.com/3aw7

If you have System Restore Enabled would could try rolling back to before you installed that utility and see if that works as well.

Col

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