xp problems..
 

i recently bought a new hard drive and am now using it as my primary master running xp proffesional

i was having problems with my previous hard drive so after the installation of my new drive i tried to reinstall xp pro on it again

somthing went wrong with the install and it gets errors when 39minutes are remaining, it boots at that place in the install gives me errors and restarts

now when i try to get files from the drive i get an error that it cant be read

how can i reinstall windows xp onto the drive without losing all my files?





if that made any sense to you please HELP!!


thanks

If I read your story correctly, and assume you originally had XP on your old drive, then bought a new drive, and made it your primary, and tried to load XP on it, it won't work with the old drive still on your computer unless you format it first. Try physically removing the old drive first, do the new installation and see if that works.

Also, if it's files off your old drive you want to save, you better burn them first, or copy to another blank drive, you're not gonna be able to get them any other way.

i have xp pro on my primary master runnin ntfs and my slave with all my data runnin fat32. never had any problems reading from my old hd.

i know u can reinstall xp on the new drive which is ur primary master without losing program files. only thing u'll need to reinstall are hardware drivers and maybe have to re-enter serial codes for software. i've had to reinstall once and it was pretty easy. everything is pretty much spelled out step by step.

I would make shure that your old drive seted up as slave.

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