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Originally posted by RaaF
If your drive did crash, you probably won't be using it now, so it was something else.
A bad sector perhaps ?
It's a bit to late, but if you would have booted with your XP cd you would have found quite some repair options.
Have you concidered installing a 2nd harddrive for your media files ?
that's what I have.
You can always unplug it to make sure nothing happens when you reinstall |
Well, I was able to reinstall XP and both drives are now working fine. This is why I'm so perplexed. I booted with 6 floppy rescue discs and everything was smooth sailing.
I do keep my music files and pictures exclusively on a 2nd hard drive but what is so strange is that now my drives are switched and I'm not even sure which one my OS is on, C or D. Also, when I format and reinstalll, doesn't that erase everything on the system? Why do I still have some files? The only thing missing was the most important - my music folder. I don't think I will ever figure this one out.
You hit the nail on the head when you said unplug it, of course that's what I should have done in the first place. should, coulda, woulda...I have learned the hard way.