Re: Let see if someone else can answer this. Looks like Ken abando

Download BootIt NG from www.bootitng.com. Run the EXE to make a bootable
floppy or CD installation disk. Boot to that, Cancel the installation, click
on Partition Work, and see what it says is on your disk.

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Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"pgarcia" <pgarcia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Compaq gave me the option to do a non-destructive install and it keep my
data. But I thinking that it may have duplicated the data, but don't know
where it would be stored. And I would say I would have around 40 to 50 Gb
of
data.

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

If you did a Compaq system recovery, was it not destructive? How much
personal data could be on the machine?

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Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"pgarcia" <pgarcia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I had to do a system recovery on a Compq and now I missing
around 90Gb on my hard drive. Does anyone know how to fix with out
doing a
destructive system recovery? I would had to have to back up everthing
on
my
hard drive and no DVD burner.
I just ran the system recover because I could not install XP SP2.
System
was
corrupted but it still ran. The drive is 160 Gb and around 67 (or so)
was
used before the recover (round 5Gb is used for the Compaq partitions).
I'm
seeing this in the system directory and I also used command prompt to
see
if
I could find other partitions, but there are none. Now, there were two
user
profiles made, I don't know if that has anything to do with it.






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