Re: Just lost 200gigs.... Thanks XP

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Windows setup does not delete a partition unless you
instruct it to delete it. In your case, that's exactly what
happened, albeit inadvertently.

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"Michael" wrote:

| Windows just raped me up the arse. The damage is done, but for future
| reference I'd like to know what happened and who's fault it was (mine
| or Bill Gates). Please comment.
|
| - Drive #1 , Serial ATA 250 gig, was partitioned 50 gigs on C, 200 gigs
| on D
|
| - Drive #2, IDE 250 GIG, was partitioned 250 gigs all on E
|
| - Motherboard was obviously set to boot from the S-ATA drive.
|
| - Windows XP Home got damaged. Major virus/spyware infestation.
|
| - I decided to go for a clean install ... booted up the XP CD.
|
| - Got to the part where you pick which partition to install on
|
| - Was going to just put it on C again but it warned me that installing
| two copies of XP on the same partition is a no-no... so I deleted the C
| partition of 50gigs (S-ATA drive)
|
| - The IDE drive partition of 250 GIGS was deleted instead
|
|
| I hate you Bill.
|
|
| WinXP seems to be confusing ATA partitions with S-ATA partitions... Is
| this common? Anyone had problems like this before?
|
|
| ps - I hate you Bill.
|

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