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by ducktapedamsel

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I am totally perplexed as to how to fix the following problem. My son removed the partition from a Compaq Presario 7000, tryin to cover up teenage activity. I went to reinstall windows XP which was going fine until the power went out. When trying again to install it, an error message.. NTLDR is missing.. since that time nothing has worked. I can't use a recovery disk, a Win98 floppy won't help, XP won't install. I am down to wondering if I can hook the hard drive to another computer to save family pictures and some much needed documents. If anyone knows of another fix, I would appreciate the help. If not, anyone that can provide me with detailed info as to how to set up the hard drive as a secondary to another desk top will prove to be a life saver. My daughters 1st birthday pictures are on this computer and I desperately want to recover then and some other items. Thanks in advance.

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by Former member

"DO NOT" do anything to this hdd.
Solution.
Get a second hdd and put it in your computer as "master", make sure that the hdd you get is a "IDE" version as this will be easier. Make sure you place your "crashed hdd" as slave. You will see how on the backend of you hdd's, there is a pin with two holes (you might need a pair of pliers) you will have to switch the plastic pin to the other pins on the hdd of which is going to be slave.
Next load your operating system into the dvd drive and do a reboot when asked to boot from dvd/cd press "enter" button on your keyboard this will now load on your operating system, when asked to select the hdd make sure that you select the "new hdd" (master), then follow the on screen instructions, this will now load the operating system onto your new hdd. When finished, "including all updates", you will be able to (in "my computer") access your old hdd and drag and drop the pics onto your new hdd. I hope this works for you.
Please post back if you have any more problems.

by ducktapedamsel

Thanks so much for your response. I am looking on Ebay today for another hard drive. I'm sure I will have to write back begging for instructions on how to hook the hard drives up but from that point on I feel confident on the set up.

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