RE: A Confusing Partition Issue

From: darksydeavenger (darksydeavenger_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/03/04


Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 19:09:01 -0800

In regards to purchasing said program, I can't afford $30 for a program that
I am unsure of. And since the program was DOS based I would never pay more
than $10 for it.

Onto some more info about my evil hard drive partition

Windows XP Service Pack 2 is installed.
And I have no idea about the IDE and am not really sure how to figure that
out.

As for backing things up, I have no more space on my other hard drive
partition or my other hard drive to consider this (yeah I screwed myself
there).

BUT

I've ruled out a virus, because our Unniversity has a few firewalls in place
and it has a log in that requires a virus scanning program before you log
into the internet. If a virus slipped thorugh, my computer would have caught
it. I've tried fixing the MBR through the windows recovery disk, but that
didn't do anything. So basically I have no idea what is wrong other than the
fact that I can't get into the drive.

I installed a computer game (Guild Wars BETA) that could have done something
to the boot record of my 90GB partition.

any more thoughts?



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