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Offline marconereu

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« on: March 09, 2004, 12:24:50 PM »
Hi there.

A few weeks ago I've installed windows98 in a 10GB partition on my 40GB HD. In the other partition (30GB), I've installed XP.

But yesterday it just refused to start over again. It said that file fastfat.sys has been corrupted and "the system would be no longer availabe" or some. I've managed to install the HD in another machine, backed up my data through DOS, but now it just don't allow me to format it, nor through Windows, neither DOS!

It is strange, since I can format it (through Windows) using NTFS. But I don't intend to do this, so please, help this poor stupid soul!

Thanks

Marcone
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« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2004, 08:27:57 AM »
What error does it give you?
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« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2004, 08:33:21 AM »
cboy, thanks for the reply, but i've solved it already. Used Powermax, a Maxtor utility to recover HDs.

Thanks, anyway!
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