Re: Can't reinstall XP because of bad sectors on disk.
From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospamcableone.net)
Date: 07/13/04
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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 19:23:16 -0600
Greetings --
Replace the hard drive.
Bruce Chambers
-- Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. - RAH "Allen" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:2bea301c4683a$65627640$a301280a@phx.gbl... > I can not load XP because there are bad sectors on the > disk where the prior XP install was. The installation > hangs while checking for prior versions of Windows and the > disk heads just rattle over the bad sectors. > How do I get around this to load XP in a good area of the > disk? > > Booting in MS DOS works fine and I can read the disk > without any problems. > > I have tried running ghost 2003 to clone the disk, but it > keeps crashing when it tries to read the directory.
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