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Joern Helbert
Hi
we had a crash of our xp home system. It refused to boot and a repair
installation wouldn't work. So I booted the repair console and checked the
XP guide on my laptop. Using 'map' showed for the c partition no
filesystem, while the d partition was shown as FAT32. So I tried 'fixboot'
as suggested in the XP guide. fixboot report that there is a problem with
the disk and asked if it should rewrite the partition-info. Unfortunately
'fixboot' converted the disk to a FAT16 filesystem. While before I could at
least see the files on the drive using a linux-on-cd system, I get no only
rubbish.
I'm really lost now, is there a way to repair the damage done by
'fixboot'?? The disk contains all the images of our 4 week old baby girl. I
don't care whether I can boot the system again or not.. but at least I want
to get it to a status where I can copy files of the disk.
Any help would be appreciated.
cheers
Jorn
we had a crash of our xp home system. It refused to boot and a repair
installation wouldn't work. So I booted the repair console and checked the
XP guide on my laptop. Using 'map' showed for the c partition no
filesystem, while the d partition was shown as FAT32. So I tried 'fixboot'
as suggested in the XP guide. fixboot report that there is a problem with
the disk and asked if it should rewrite the partition-info. Unfortunately
'fixboot' converted the disk to a FAT16 filesystem. While before I could at
least see the files on the drive using a linux-on-cd system, I get no only
rubbish.
I'm really lost now, is there a way to repair the damage done by
'fixboot'?? The disk contains all the images of our 4 week old baby girl. I
don't care whether I can boot the system again or not.. but at least I want
to get it to a status where I can copy files of the disk.
Any help would be appreciated.
cheers
Jorn