"Lost" Partition shows as hpfs. How to get it working again?

[Guest]

I have just had to reformat a friend's drive as it was quicker and cleaner
than chasing down the 165 virus infections I found. After deleting lots of
programs to save space (mainly games) I partitioned the drive (using
Partition Magic 7) into 2 parts and left the old Windows partition as hidden
and inactive.

I created a new partition and re-installed Win XP Pro. The process worked
fine. Having appplied all of the service packs (1 & 2) and installing &
upgrading Norton AV, then went back into Partition Magic to make the old
Windows a logical drive so that I could copy the data files from it onto the
new install. Partition Magic reported that the old windows was now an HPFS
(OS2?) partiton and I can't touch it with anything. What's more, having then
re-booted the new XP partiton it displayed strange behaviour like rebooting
when I changed to another user profile.

I now can't load Windows at all unless I use the install disk to boot from,
in which case it all works fine.

So 2 problems, geting my new XP install to boot properly and getting my
hands on my old data...

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Simon

 

[da_test]

I have just had to reformat a friend's drive as it was quicker and cleaner
than chasing down the 165 virus infections I found. After deleting lots of
programs to save space (mainly games) I partitioned the drive (using
Partition Magic 7) into 2 parts and left the old Windows partition as hidden
and inactive.

I created a new partition and re-installed Win XP Pro. The process worked
fine. Having appplied all of the service packs (1 & 2) and installing &
upgrading Norton AV, then went back into Partition Magic to make the old
Windows a logical drive so that I could copy the data files from it onto the
new install. Partition Magic reported that the old windows was now an HPFS
(OS2?) partiton and I can't touch it with anything. What's more, having then
re-booted the new XP partiton it displayed strange behaviour like rebooting
when I changed to another user profile.

I now can't load Windows at all unless I use the install disk to boot from,
in which case it all works fine.

So 2 problems, geting my new XP install to boot properly and getting my
hands on my old data...

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Simon

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Dave