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by nschari Nov 24, 2002 last reply Feb 23, 2003

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Hi
i need urgent help to recover my programs and data from my laptop PC.My machine operating system is WIn XP and I made a mistake of changing the keyboard layout of my laptop PC .By this act the keyboard and mouse has got disabled .
The PC tecnician known to me installed win 2000 and by virtue of that I can now use the keyboard and mouse .
I reinstalled WIn XP ,in the same drive but in a different directory , with the hope that it will restore all my datas and mails but now i have 3 Operating system but i still can not access the data/programs/mail etc under my original operating system nor can activate the original OS.
At the time of booting i am getting a msg saying that hibernation file is missing/corrupt.
I need help in restoringmy PC to its original state and I need only one OS (Win XP)instead of the present 3 OS.
How to change the keyboard layout of muy original/first OS - Win XP?
How to remove other OS after rectifying the keyboard problem?
Thanks
Regards
Chari

Additional Information
System Information
Operating System: Windows XP; MSIE 6.0
Processor: 800 MHz PIII Laptop
Memory: 256 MB

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by pcross Nov 24, 2002

Boot to the windows xp cd-rom and when prompted for choice to install or repair choose repair and after repairing xp boot up with boot manager and choose xp os.
Next goto system restore under accesories and system tools and choose a restore point right before you reprogramed the keyboard. This will elminate all other os's and any changes you made after reprograming the keyboard.