Re: Packard Bell's rescue floppy

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If there is a hidden partition on the old drive the floppy likely looks for
it and reinstalls to the original location. So you may not be successful in
trying to point the install location to a second drive. What I would try, if
there is a hidden install partition, would be to clone the entire old drive
to the new drive, remove the old drive, boot off the floppy and see if it
will do the trick that way.

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Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
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"noop" <noop@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:42b1d705$0$25590$ba620e4c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi,
> A friend has a problem with its Packard Bell computer.
> Looks like the hard disk is failing (plenty of disk errors in the Windows
> XP's event observer, but Seagate diagnostic tools find only one bad
> sector...).
> The computer come with a red floppy disk which is supposed to reinstall
> Windows, so I guess it uses a hidden partition or Alternate Data Streams.
>
> Question:
> With that Packard Bell's rescue floppy, is it possible to add a second
hard
> disk, reinstall Windows on the new disk and then discard the bad drive?
>
> Or will I need to buy a new Windows XP?
>
> Thanks!


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