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  1. May 21st, 2008, 07:58 PM #1
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    Here's one for you all...

    Got an HP dv2110rs laptop 'running' XP Media Center. The owner screwed with the partitions, so when I boot to an XP disk and go into the Recovery Console as Admin I get these installations to choose from-
    1: D:\minint
    2: D:\WINDOWS
    3: C:\miniNT
    4: F:\WINDOWS
    I have PM 8 and Acronis to play around with the partitions. Any ideas as to where to go from here so I can reset the boot partition and save his sorry *** ?
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  2. May 21st, 2008, 09:28 PM #2
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    Yup, that be a tough one that...
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  3. May 22nd, 2008, 01:24 AM #3
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    Ghost the drive for safety, see which partition looks like the "good one" then delete the rest if they are junk and reconfigure boot.ini if needed.
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  5. May 22nd, 2008, 08:16 AM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by CeeBee
    Ghost the drive for safety, see which partition looks like the "good one" then delete the rest if they are junk and reconfigure boot.ini if needed.
    That's exactly what I'm doing right now.
    great minds and all...
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  6. May 22nd, 2008, 08:28 AM #6
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    Well it depends for me. If you are just going to do a fresh install and no recovery of data I'd just blow the whole thing away. KillDisk is a lovely utility for a quick wipe of everything off the drive. Far more efficient and effective than format on the xp install disk or fdisk.
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  7. May 22nd, 2008, 08:38 AM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by Niclo Iste
    Well it depends for me. If you are just going to do a fresh install and no recovery of data I'd just blow the whole thing away. KillDisk is a lovely utility for a quick wipe of everything off the drive. Far more efficient and effective than format on the xp install disk or fdisk.
    Ther's the rub, customer doesn't have the XP Media Center install cd. I'm thinking that one of the partitions is the utility that has the restore on it.
    I'm going to Ghost it and then set each partition as active one at a time and see what happens.
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  8. May 22nd, 2008, 05:57 PM #8
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    I'd really like to know what happened with those partitions! Normally of course, the D: partition would contain all the restore files, and the D:\minint partition contains the recovery program. Can't imagine how he ended with that F:\Windows. I guess you already tried the f11 key at boot to enter the recovery manager? Wouldn't be much of a surprise if that failed.
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