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by cl2002

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I am no Windows XP Home edition expert that is why I am here for advice.

I have an eMachine t2200 which I bought in Jan,2003.

It came with restore disks that let me restore the computer like when I first bought it.

The only thing differnt about the computer now is it has 2 hard drives not one.

The other day I just wanted to move all my games to D drive so I moved a game folder in C to D, then defragmented C.

To my horror I discovered I lost communication with D drive, lost my 'add/remove programs list', and my system restore which I thought was working (I have used it many times) was NOT working.

'MY COMPUTER' still has the D drive present but when I click its 'propertes' it tells me that it needs to be formatted.

I can reinstall my whole system BUT do not want to do that if there is a quicker solution, I also don't want to lose the DATA on D drive if there is any.

Can some one please help me get
1) DRIVE D back,
2) my system restore back
3) MY 'add/remove programs list.

Thank you for your assistance.

Carl

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by oh smeg

But you first need to check if the drive that you call D is actually working. You should remember that a HDD is no Secure Backup Solution and at best should only be considered as a Temp Storage Solution as HDD's do fail quite often.

You should first test the HDD with the Drive Makers Testing Utility which should be available from the Drive Makers Web Site.

At a pinch you can use Sea Tools available from here

http://tinyurl.com/2sk57z

While Sea Tools will work it may not be as accurate as the Drive makers Utility mainly because it was made for a different HDD so the error reporting may not be as accurate in the descriptions that it give. Though if it says Faulty that will be correct though the reason may not be.

If that is OK you can proceed to an In Place install of XP by following the directions from M$ here

http://tinyurl.com/g4bv8

Col

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