DELL 8200 and 40GIG HD Won't boot

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Robert J. Stevens

I have a friend who has DELL 8200 W/a 40GIG HD She was using it then
shut down; when she tried to reboot it says it can't find the HD. I ran
Ontrack which finds the Drive. But can't see the Partitions. Win98SE
Fdisk sees a 31 meg non-dos part and a 38Gig NTFS Part Can it be fixed
with the WINXP CD??? She doesnt want to lose the work she has on the HD.

I have no experience with XP.
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Robert said:
I have a friend who has DELL 8200 W/a 40GIG HD She was using it then
shut down; when she tried to reboot it says it can't find the HD. I
ran Ontrack which finds the Drive. But can't see the Partitions.
Win98SE Fdisk sees a 31 meg non-dos part and a 38Gig NTFS Part Can it
be fixed with the WINXP CD??? She doesnt want to lose the work she
has on the HD.
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Your friend should stop using her computer, as more data will be lost if the
drive in on the fritz. Install the drive in your computer, as a slave, and
make an image of it using Ghost, Acronis True Image, or similar. Then you
may go about running diagnostics on the hard drive and motherboard.
 
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