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Thread ID: 76621	2007-02-07 05:58:00	Oops, toasted my hard-drive!	peejay (1396)	Press F1

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523491	2007-02-07 05:58:00	Dont ask why but I felt the need to reformat my main hard-drive C: so I reinstalled WinXP to the D drive and tried to reformat but Windows wouldnt let me so I whipped out a partition program (Partition Magic) and formatted with that. Now I cannot access my C drive or windows. The only way I can get the system running is to re-install Windows to the D drive each time, I cannot boot to it. Is my C drive history? How can I get it back or do I throw it all in the tide? Cheers, Pat	peejay (1396)
523492	2007-02-07 06:08:00	So why did you put Windows on D: at all? Why not just reformat and install to C: like it was before. C: would have been activated as Boot partition, D: obviously isn't, so it wants to boot off C:	pctek (84)
523493	2007-02-07 06:21:00	Blame it on Waitangi Day blues but I thought I would need to have WinXP on the other drive so I could do the format and then move it back to the C drive. Anyway, what next? Is it toast or do I pay a visit to MrFixit?	peejay (1396)
523494	2007-02-07 06:59:00	This peejay is NOT this PJ. !!!!!!!!!!!!! PJ:)	Poppa John (284)
523495	2007-02-07 07:00:00	Do a clean install. Back up what u want to keep (forget copying programs that have been installed already, reinstall them). Put the cd in boot from it (if u have it), then delete both partitions in the XP setup screen and re-create them if u want more than 1 partition. Then reinstall XP on C.	Speedy Gonzales (78)
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