Re: Questions about NTFS partitions

Joe wrote:
Hi,

I have an HP Pavilion a815n desktop PC with Win XP Home. Recently I noticed that Sound Recorder and calculator are missing. I tried researching HP website but without any luck on how to restore the missing things. The only way I know is to restore them is by installing XP again because I tried using Software restore CD that came with the PC but no luck.

I have one hard drive that is divided in 3 NTFS partitions. One of which has OS and other two partitions are data drives. If I try to format system partition in order to reinstall OS, will my other two data partitions remain intact?

Yes but why would you reformat to install the OS? You should be able to reinstall the OS over itself, no formatting needed. If you need the calculator you can ad that thru the WIndows Add/Remove programs feature and I THINK the same goes for the sound recorder, assuming it isn't from a 3rd party vendor. 

Thanks for yours advice and time,

Joe



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