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re: Win XP gurus please help! Old hard drives empty after fresh install?
Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 7:25 am
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Posted by geek9pm (274 messages posted)


To put it simply, the error can be both in the BIOS and XP. It is a know issue in XP SP-1.
You will need to review the information published by Microsoft and others.
Any disk write operations may cause damage to some data. Some read operations above the 127GB line will be corrupt. The system may become unstable at any time. This is a low-level code problem and does NOT bring up error messages until after the damage is done. I just gave some links to CK above. Please look above this post for the links to the Microsoft site.

Geek9pm




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re: Win XP gurus please help! Old hard drives empty after fresh install? (Loud: Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 7:11 am)

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*re: Win XP gurus please help! Old hard drives empty after fresh install? (C K: Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 9:23 am)

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-Win XP gurus please help! Old hard drives empty after fresh install? (Loud: Wed, Apr 29, 2009, 7:57 pm)
*re: Win XP gurus please help! Old hard drives empty after fresh install? (C K: Wed, Apr 29, 2009, 10:06 pm)
-re: Win XP gurus please help! Old hard drives empty after fresh install? (geek9pm: Wed, Apr 29, 2009, 10:09 pm)
-re: Win XP gurus please help! Old hard drives empty after fresh install? (C K: Thu, Apr 30, 2009, 6:20 am)
*re: Win XP gurus please help! Old hard drives empty after fresh install? (geek9pm: Thu, Apr 30, 2009, 7:13 am)
-re: Win XP gurus please help! Old hard drives empty after fresh install? (Loud: Thu, Apr 30, 2009, 7:11 am)
-re: Win XP gurus please help! Old hard drives empty after fresh install? (geek9pm: Thu, Apr 30, 2009, 7:25 am)
*re: Win XP gurus please help! Old hard drives empty after fresh install? (C K: Thu, Apr 30, 2009, 9:23 am)
*re: Win XP gurus please help! Old hard drives empty after fresh install? (C K: Thu, Apr 30, 2009, 9:31 am)
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