I have a question on Windows XP boot problem

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Pete

I cannot get into Winddows XP on my "C" drive. I have a
notebook (HP) and the recovery disk wants to format that
darn think. Can I use fdisk and make a partition and
install windows 95 or 98 and use that to recover some data
files. If so do I make that a primary partition. I
believe you can only have one boot partition??? Once I
retrieve the couple of files and a few pictures I will
then format the whole thing using my recovery CD from HP
that came with the notebook.

Thanks for your time,
Pete
 
The drive is corrupted and you will not be able to
partition it as you want to do. If you do, you will nose
all of the data you want to save. You might not be able
to read the contents either if the following does not
work.

The only option is to put a good hard drive as a second
drive, put that as your boot disk, and try to open up
your original drives contents and transfer the data (if
it will read it).
 
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