Could anyone help me with this situation created by my own ignorance?. I have a hard drive with two partitions C:(boot) and D:(backup). I backed up personal data on D: and tried to reinstall a fresh copy of Windows XP over the existing copy All went well until it gave me a “fatal error” message after the “copying files” phase had finished and I could not cancel or continue the installation. I decided then to do another installation booting up from the Windows CD and instead of installing Windows on the C: partition I deleted it(I was trying to get rid of the damaged installation), and created a new partition. Somehow the partition letters switched and now I have drive C: as backup and drive D: as boot drive. Then I started to install Windows XP on the D: drive and everything went well until the computer restarted, booting from the hard drive it went to the same “fatal error” screen I got before from the damaged installation.Now my back up data is on the C: drive(capacity 31 GB) and I can not finish the Windows installation from the D: drive(capacity 110 GB). Is there anyway to cancel , abort this damaged installation or make the D; drive the boot drive. Sorry for the long post and thanks for your time.
Frank Pinal
