hard drive corruption

yesterday I partitioned my harddrive using partition magic and when I tried
to boot I get the blue screen of death.So I booted with the xp disk to do a
repair and it doesn't recognize the win xp installation so it wants me to
reformat the whole hard drive.I should have backed up my whole hard drive but
I did not.Well anyways I booted into knoppix and all my files are still
there.So is there any way to repair the harddrive so that windows can
recognize it.Or am I going to have to buy a external harddrive upload and go
with the reinstallalation.

Have you tried the support site for Partition Magic at symantec.com?

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Xandros


"jake" <jake@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CEA51D3C-3A63-44F4-AE1C-2FE80E250AF7@microsoft.com...
> yesterday I partitioned my harddrive using partition magic and when I
> tried
> to boot I get the blue screen of death.So I booted with the xp disk to do
> a
> repair and it doesn't recognize the win xp installation so it wants me to
> reformat the whole hard drive.I should have backed up my whole hard drive
> but
> I did not.Well anyways I booted into knoppix and all my files are still
> there.So is there any way to repair the harddrive so that windows can
> recognize it.Or am I going to have to buy a external harddrive upload and
> go
> with the reinstallalation.

"jake" <jake@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CEA51D3C-3A63-44F4-AE1C-2FE80E250AF7@microsoft.com...
> yesterday I partitioned my harddrive using partition magic and when I
tried
> to boot I get the blue screen of death.So I booted with the xp disk to do
a
> repair and it doesn't recognize the win xp installation so it wants me to
> reformat the whole hard drive.I should have backed up my whole hard drive
but
> I did not.Well anyways I booted into knoppix and all my files are still
> there.So is there any way to repair the harddrive so that windows can
> recognize it.Or am I going to have to buy a external harddrive upload and
go
> with the reinstallalation.




That will happen if the registry is considerably damaged.

If you re-install XP ***without*** formatting your drive,
though you will have to re-do everything...at least your data will still be
there,
though you might have to take ownership of any folders that were in your
formaer profile.

I think you can use Knoppix to backup your files to an external USB drive.
or else you could backup your data by slaving your drive to another machine

"philo" wrote:

>
> "jake" <jake@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:CEA51D3C-3A63-44F4-AE1C-2FE80E250AF7@microsoft.com...
> > yesterday I partitioned my harddrive using partition magic and when I
> tried
> > to boot I get the blue screen of death.So I booted with the xp disk to do
> a
> > repair and it doesn't recognize the win xp installation so it wants me to
> > reformat the whole hard drive.I should have backed up my whole hard drive
> but
> > I did not.Well anyways I booted into knoppix and all my files are still
> > there.So is there any way to repair the harddrive so that windows can
> > recognize it.Or am I going to have to buy a external harddrive upload and
> go
> > with the reinstallalation.
>
>
>
>
> That will happen if the registry is considerably damaged.
>
> If you re-install XP ***without*** formatting your drive,
> though you will have to re-do everything...at least your data will still be
> there,
> though you might have to take ownership of any folders that were in your
> formaer profile.
>
> I think you can use Knoppix to backup your files to an external USB drive.
> or else you could backup your data by slaving your drive to another machine


Ok I booted into bartpe and ran a chkdsk seems to have solved the problem
although I have thousand's of little 8kb files all over the place,but I can
delete all of them so I'm good.
Thanks for the help

"jake" <jake@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3E4B930B-77DD-4386-9B28-5E29C74FABE5@microsoft.com...
>
>
> "philo" wrote:
>
> >
> > "jake" <jake@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:CEA51D3C-3A63-44F4-AE1C-2FE80E250AF7@microsoft.com...
> > > yesterday I partitioned my harddrive using partition magic and when I
> > tried
> > > to boot I get the blue screen of death.So I booted with the xp disk to
do
> > a
> > > repair and it doesn't recognize the win xp installation so it wants me
to
> > > reformat the whole hard drive.I should have backed up my whole hard
drive
> > but
> > > I did not.Well anyways I booted into knoppix and all my files are
still
> > > there.So is there any way to repair the harddrive so that windows can
> > > recognize it.Or am I going to have to buy a external harddrive upload
and
> > go
> > > with the reinstallalation.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > That will happen if the registry is considerably damaged.
> >
> > If you re-install XP ***without*** formatting your drive,
> > though you will have to re-do everything...at least your data will still
be
> > there,
> > though you might have to take ownership of any folders that were in your
> > formaer profile.
> >
> > I think you can use Knoppix to backup your files to an external USB
drive.
> > or else you could backup your data by slaving your drive to another
machine
>
>
> Ok I booted into bartpe and ran a chkdsk seems to have solved the
problem
> although I have thousand's of little 8kb files all over the place,but I
can
> delete all of them so I'm good.
> Thanks for the help


Glad you got it working...
but I'd still do a HD diagnostic and RAM test