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    XP Installed into C:\Windows.0

    Hi guys I have a rather annoying problem with an XP installation! The story: I was planning a clean install on a laptop. Booted from the XP CD and did a format of the drive. The process then moved onto copying necessary files. As it approached the 90% complete mark the laptop mysteriously...
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    Hard Drive in BIOS but NOT XP!

    I guess it's because I've heard so many horror stories about GoBack and don't like to take the risk. My C drive is 500Gig and has stacks on it so I'm guessing I'd need another 500Gig to do an image? If everything went according to plan with GoBack, is it a case of just installing it and then...
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    Hard Drive in BIOS but NOT XP!

    Used to be a great 80 & 40m mobile op but not been on for years! Still have my Hy Gain TH11 I still fancy doing some mobile work, you never know. 73s de John
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    Hard Drive in BIOS but NOT XP!

    O&O File Recovery It actually did a great job. I was just wondering if there's any recovery program that would maintain file names and maybe even folder structure! Perhaps that's expecting to much :) John GW0ACH & GW8VBV
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    Hard Drive in BIOS but NOT XP!

    Thanks guys In the intervening time I did run a data recovery program and have recovered a lot of files, probably all of them. The only issue is that all the recovered files have been given meaningless names and recovered to folders depending on their type e.g. Doc, XLS, ZIP, TXT folders. The...
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    Hard Drive in BIOS but NOT XP!

    Hi guys This is a problem on a friends PC that I've been unable to resolve yet! The symptoms: His PC wouldn't boot kept comming up with the menu, start windows normally, safe mode, last known.... etc. Regardless of which option chosen the PC would simply restart and the same menu appear. He...
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    250Gig Hard Drive only Formats to 131Gig!!!

    Thanks for the reply. It certainly was a 48-bit LBA issue!! I'd used an early version of XP installation WITHOUT SP1 hence the problem!! Thanks for the tip. John
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    250Gig Hard Drive only Formats to 131Gig!!!

    Hi guys My first post to the forum. I decided to give my PC a spring clean and start from scratch. I've done this several times before without any problems. My C: drive is a Seagate ST3250824A 250Gig and I've had no problems with it at all. I start my PC by booting from a WindowsXP...

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