hard drive corruption

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yesterday I partitioned my harddrive using partition magic and when I tried
to boot I get the blue screen of death.So I booted with the xp disk to do a
repair and it doesn't recognize the win xp installation so it wants me to
reformat the whole hard drive.I should have backed up my whole hard drive but
I did not.Well anyways I booted into knoppix and all my files are still
there.So is there any way to repair the harddrive so that windows can
recognize it.Or am I going to have to buy a external harddrive upload and go
with the reinstallalation.
 
jake said:
yesterday I partitioned my harddrive using partition magic and when I tried
to boot I get the blue screen of death.So I booted with the xp disk to do a
repair and it doesn't recognize the win xp installation so it wants me to
reformat the whole hard drive.I should have backed up my whole hard drive but
I did not.Well anyways I booted into knoppix and all my files are still
there.So is there any way to repair the harddrive so that windows can
recognize it.Or am I going to have to buy a external harddrive upload and go
with the reinstallalation.
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That will happen if the registry is considerably damaged.

If you re-install XP ***without*** formatting your drive,
though you will have to re-do everything...at least your data will still be
there,
though you might have to take ownership of any folders that were in your
formaer profile.

I think you can use Knoppix to backup your files to an external USB drive.
or else you could backup your data by slaving your drive to another machine
 
philo said:
That will happen if the registry is considerably damaged.

If you re-install XP ***without*** formatting your drive,
though you will have to re-do everything...at least your data will still be
there,
though you might have to take ownership of any folders that were in your
formaer profile.

I think you can use Knoppix to backup your files to an external USB drive.
or else you could backup your data by slaving your drive to another machine
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Ok I booted into bartpe and ran a chkdsk seems to have solved the problem
although I have thousand's of little 8kb files all over the place,but I can
delete all of them so I'm good.
Thanks for the help
 
jake said:
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Ok I booted into bartpe and ran a chkdsk seems to have solved the problem
although I have thousand's of little 8kb files all over the place,but I can
delete all of them so I'm good.
Thanks for the help
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Glad you got it working...
but I'd still do a HD diagnostic and RAM test
 
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