Windows Crashed: Partition Wiped.

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Hello. My computer crashed last night after putting in a
blank CD to burn (probably unreleated). Upon rebooting,
it could not load windows. Using a windows 98 boot disk
(Hard drive was FAT32, and I like DOS better than XP
Recovery console. Slight differences.) and FDISK, it was
discovered that the partition is still assigned, and
everything is fine in FDISK. However, when changing to C:
in DOS, It gets an error reading drive C. It seems as if
the partition is not formatted (or, unformatted itself).
How did this happen, and more importantly, is there any
way to recover, aside from Format C: and re-installing
Windows? Some recent files were fairly important, and
hadn't been backed up yet.

PC Specs:
Windows XP Pro
AMD Duron 900MHz
256MB PC100 DIMM
40GB 7200RMP Hard Drive
QDI KinetiZ 7E-A Motherboard

Thanks in advance!
 
Kevin said:
Hello. My computer crashed last night after putting in a
blank CD to burn (probably unreleated). Upon rebooting,
it could not load windows. Using a windows 98 boot disk
(Hard drive was FAT32, and I like DOS better than XP
Recovery console. Slight differences.) and FDISK, it was
discovered that the partition is still assigned, and
everything is fine in FDISK. However, when changing to C:
in DOS, It gets an error reading drive C. It seems as if
the partition is not formatted (or, unformatted itself).
How did this happen, and more importantly, is there any
way to recover, aside from Format C: and re-installing
Windows? Some recent files were fairly important, and
hadn't been backed up yet.
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Try removing the hard drive from your computer and setting it up as a slave
drive in another computer.
 
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