The patient:
P4 Gateway.
Windows XP.
500GB hard drive.
On boot, the computer cannot locate the start up volume.
When the I ran the Windows XP Installer disk, it sees
the physical hard drive, but not the previously installed
system. It sees an un-partitioned space on the physical drive.
I am guessing that something how gone awry with the file system, either
the master boot record, or the database of the file system.
At this point, i can clone the disk and work with a copy and pull of some
of the photo files, but is there more i can do with disk utility software
to restore the files and the file structure that was there, or am i at the
point where i need to salvage what files i can and start with a reformat and a
clean install of windows xp?
The hard drive is less than a year old and physically seems sound.
Would/could this condition be caused by a power surge, virus, or other event?
Thanks,
Rocky
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