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[thewolf17]

When I turned on my computer at my house this morning, it posted fine, and then stopped. It didn't even get to the Windows XP screen, and I had a blank monitor for about 2 minutes. I powered off and put a windows 98 boot disk in. When it loaded it, it said there were no "valid FAT or FAT32 partitions." I went into fdisk, and it showed my 2 hardrive partitions (I have 1 60gb HD partitioned into a 10gb and 50gb), but neither of them had lables. They were the correct sizes though. I didn't have many of my files backed up, so I really don't want to have to format. Can someone please help?

 

[Actaeon]

Eh, not sure really how to fix the problem. But maybe I can help backing up your stuff.

Install it in another computer, and make it a secondary HD. Move whatever files you like on the primary HD, or even burn them to a CD-R. Reformat, and move whatever you want back over.

 

[thewolf17]

Is there anyway I could just "rename" my partitions, so they will have have lables again?

 

[TheCorm]

If you boot into DOS and do a "dir" on your C:\ and D:\ drives, does it list the files ok?

 

[Serp86]

if you are using winxp, it is most likely that the file system is NTFS - which is why the win98 boot disk says there are no valid FAT or FAT32 partitions.

If you have another computer, you should download the 5-disk winsxp bootup disks.

wait a sec till i find the link.

 

[Serp86]

for the professional edition use this;

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.microsoft.com%2fdownloads%2frelease.asp%3fReleaseID%3d33291

for the home edition use this;

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=33290


note that the home edition startupdisks do not work if you have the professional edition, and vice versa.

oh, i don't think that labelling the hard-disks will work. If your windows does not boot, you should attempt a repair installation.