How to recover my existing Windows XP?

[Guest]

Hello!
Windows XP boot CDs stoped finding my existing Windows XP on my HDD after a
Windows XP boot CD tried to repair my existing Windows XP by reinstallation!
It wrote that an arror has occurred and I should contact Microsoft, at an end
of file copying. 'Bootcfg /rebuild' in the Recovery console stoped finding my
existing Windows XP too. How to recover my existing Windows XP? I removed a
PCI USB card which could cause the error, ran chkdsk c: /p and fixboot c: in
the Recovery console, which did not help.
Best regards,
Dima
+79163876746

 

[Hertz_Donut]

Hello!
Windows XP boot CDs stoped finding my existing Windows XP on my HDD after
a
Windows XP boot CD tried to repair my existing Windows XP by
reinstallation!
It wrote that an arror has occurred and I should contact Microsoft, at an
end
of file copying. 'Bootcfg /rebuild' in the Recovery console stoped finding
my
existing Windows XP too. How to recover my existing Windows XP? I removed
a
PCI USB card which could cause the error, ran chkdsk c: /p and fixboot c:
in
the Recovery console, which did not help.
Best regards,
Dima
+79163876746

You will probably not like the answer.

You have overwritten a critical part of the hard drive and the data that is
there cannot be easily retrieved.

The symptoms you are describing are indicative of a failing hard drive.

Your existing installation cannot be used if you have damaged it as you
claim. Your option now is to do a format and clean install, but if the
drive is going bad, it will be futile to use it.

Bobby

 

[Guest]

Thanks Bobby for your reply.
My HDD is new and healthy. chkdsk c: /p and chkdsk c: /r in the recovery
console showed this. Why do you think that the existing installation is
damaged and cannot be recovered? The problem is in Windows XP CD installation
finding it. How to make the Windows XP CD installation find the existing
Windows XP? The Recovery console finds it since it asks me to choose it.
Best regards,
Dima

 

[Guest]

I have installed another Windows XP on my other HDD. It sees contents of the
original HDD with the existing Windows XP and does not find any errors on it
too.
Best regards,
Dima

 

[Ghostrider]

I have installed another Windows XP on my other HDD. It sees contents of the
original HDD with the existing Windows XP and does not find any errors on it
too.
Best regards,
Dima
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It is the type of error that is being discussed. The hard drive
may be physically intact but the original Windows XP installation
on it may have been corrupted because, as H_D wrote, the repair
process probably over-wrote parts of it but did not complete the
repair. This is non-physical, or software damage, that prevents
XP from functioning. Chkdsk reports on physical damage.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Ghostrider for your explanation.
How to complete the repair?
Best regards,
Dima

 

[Ghostrider]

Thanks Ghostrider for your explanation.
How to complete the repair?
Best regards,
Dima

Not precisely sure what you have done at this point other than
the fact that Windows XP is working on a different hard drive.
There are right ways and wrong ways of installing an operating
system as well as individual preferences. There is not enough
information to come up with the next step. For instance, what
drive is the new version of XP located - e.g., C, D, or what?
If not Drive C, is it fact important to you? Re-post and it will
open up a string of possible choices for you.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Ghostrider for your reply.
I can place the other HDD with working Windows XP as C: or D: and set BIOS
to boot from c: or d: and set the existing HDD as d: or c: correspondingly.
Now the other HDD is D:. How should I set?
Best regards,
Dima

 

[Ghostrider]

Thanks Ghostrider for your reply.
I can place the other HDD with working Windows XP as C: or D: and set BIOS
to boot from c: or d: and set the existing HDD as d: or c: correspondingly.
Now the other HDD is D:. How should I set?
Best regards,
Dima

The best thing for the hard drive with the original Windows XP
would be to make it a slave HD to the new Drive C. Make sure
that the computer is truly booting from the new Drive C and
that it is a primary partition. The original HD, or new Drive D,
should be, by convention, an extended partition with logical
drive(s). And, as a precaution, save by copying all important
folders and files from new Drive D before making partitioning
changes.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Ghostrider for the direction.
How to recover the original Windows XP then?
Best regards,
Dima
My time is GMT+3

 

[Guest]

I could save my previous Window installation by disagreeing with Microsoft to
use its driver for my Promise Ultra 100 TX2! I clean-installed successfully
only after using a driver from the Promise. I agreed to install two unsigned
softwares: one without a name and the driver from the Promise.
Best regards,
Dima