Re: Boot failure Windows XP

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"arun-win98-user" <arunwin98user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hello everyone,
>
> I have Windows XP on my home desktop computer and it has been running fine
> for last several months. All of a sudden it failed to reboot today. I
> used
> a boot disk to get started. I then noticed that the system does not
> recognize the drives C (where my Windows XP OS is installed) or D drive
> which
> is a seperate physical drive for my data.
>
> Any ideas on what I can do?
>
> Thanks in advance for the help.


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