Re: Very odd hard drive problems
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"Christoph" <jcboget@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I'm having some serious issues with my WinXP installation. To fix them, I
> figured I'd do a repair install. After I insert my XP disk and reboot,
when
> it gets to the dialogue where it asks which partition I want to install XP
> to, it's showing my hard drives but not correctly. What is normally my C:
> drive while I am in WinXP is showing up in this dialogue as my F: drive.
> When I go to select that drive to install XP to, I get an error message
> saying "Windows XP cannot recognize the partition you selected" and it
> instructs me to go to the prevous screen and select a different one or
> delete and recreate the partition. What's going on? Why is it doing
this?
>
> thnx,
> Christoph
>
>
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