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re: How to force damaged XP to be avail for Repair Install?
Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by geek9pm
(196 messages posted)
Don not try to force it. The partition information is not visible to the install
program.
Windows XP has limited ability to recover a damaged partition. It may
boot, but that accounts for maybe five percent of the stuff on the partition.
You need to make a "clone" backup copy of the hard drive. After that, try a
third party program to find out why the partition is not visible. One popular program
is found on www.Acronis.com, but I don't like it.
Do a Google on "recover lost
partition" and you will find lots of sites that want to sell you a program that can
both "clone" the HDD and repair the partition information. Some have free trials.
And there are shops that do all it for a price. Next time use the Windows XP Backup
system. It is not really hard to do.
Geek9pm 
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