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Data Recovery by a 'service company' will cost you up to US $ 300 per hard drive.
You can attempt to configure the PC with your 15Gb HDD as Primary Master and the 80Gb HDD as Secondary Master. Don't connect the CD at this time.
Remeber to run your BIOS configuration to make sure that the 2 HDDs are properly recognised in BIOS.
Boot up to XP off the 15Gb drive [this should be automatic] and examine the 80Gb drive yourself.
You may be able to 'see' more than 31Gb of data.
If you have some joy with this, then power off the PC and connect your CD Burner as Secondary Slave or Primary Slave.
Copy / Burn all that you can off the 80Gb HDD to CD.
Once you have got all the information that is recoverable onto CD then switch off the PC.
Reconfigure with the 80Gb HDD as Primary Master and the CD as Secondary Master.
Insert the XP Installation CD into the Drive and configure BIOS to boot off the CD.
Windows will begin the installation process and choose a full installation and reformat the 80Gb HDD as NTFS and as a single partition. This should find a full drive available to you and a working Windows system.
Should you get any Disk error Message relating to the HDD then consider that the drive is about to take a long rest and get a replacement.
You can attempt to configure the PC with your 15Gb HDD as Primary Master and the 80Gb HDD as Secondary Master. Don't connect the CD at this time.
Remeber to run your BIOS configuration to make sure that the 2 HDDs are properly recognised in BIOS.
Boot up to XP off the 15Gb drive [this should be automatic] and examine the 80Gb drive yourself.
You may be able to 'see' more than 31Gb of data.
If you have some joy with this, then power off the PC and connect your CD Burner as Secondary Slave or Primary Slave.
Copy / Burn all that you can off the 80Gb HDD to CD.
Once you have got all the information that is recoverable onto CD then switch off the PC.
Reconfigure with the 80Gb HDD as Primary Master and the CD as Secondary Master.
Insert the XP Installation CD into the Drive and configure BIOS to boot off the CD.
Windows will begin the installation process and choose a full installation and reformat the 80Gb HDD as NTFS and as a single partition. This should find a full drive available to you and a working Windows system.
Should you get any Disk error Message relating to the HDD then consider that the drive is about to take a long rest and get a replacement.