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Sarah C
Machine had working copy of XP Home however password was unrecoverable. Some
sort of corruption also prevented accessing Administrator account. Used XP
Pro disc to do a repair and was able to get on ... reset password and access
data.
After doing this, decided to do a fresh XP install. Booted off CD, deleted
partition, created new partition, formatted disc. At end of Format comes
back and says could not format partition. Possible bad drive. Check cables
etc.
Makes no sense as all else prior worked just fine. Tried formatting again
.... same issue. Hard shut down and then a few hours later tried again only
this time left about 1100mb as opposed to standard 8mb that XP leaves when
creating partition. Tried format and same issue ... gets all the way to the
end and then pops up message.
HELP !!! THANKS !!
sort of corruption also prevented accessing Administrator account. Used XP
Pro disc to do a repair and was able to get on ... reset password and access
data.
After doing this, decided to do a fresh XP install. Booted off CD, deleted
partition, created new partition, formatted disc. At end of Format comes
back and says could not format partition. Possible bad drive. Check cables
etc.
Makes no sense as all else prior worked just fine. Tried formatting again
.... same issue. Hard shut down and then a few hours later tried again only
this time left about 1100mb as opposed to standard 8mb that XP leaves when
creating partition. Tried format and same issue ... gets all the way to the
end and then pops up message.
HELP !!! THANKS !!