I went to unstall a windows file to replace midway through when i was redownloading it i had a power failure. now i cant boot up my windows xp. i treid putting in the xp disk to redo it but the disk wont come up. is there some way and either redo my harddrive or transfere the info that i have on this hard drive over to the one that windows isnt working on.
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Jump to Postwhen loading the xp cd did you make sure that your bios was set to boot from cd. And if you have another had drive then take out the one with windows in it boot from cd and install windows onto that HD. Then put your old drive in the …
Jump to Posthold on... wait a second... you may not need to wipe the drive or lose any data.
when booting up, does windows try to load at all and then fail with some error like "device in accessable" or something.
I would pop in your bootable cd or set of …
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