To Woogieman
I always partition my HD..
I have a dual boot system..with XP on Drive D:\
and all application installed on drive E:
and all game on drive F:\ and one 20G partition for Virtual pC for testing purposes
the rest of the partitiopns for O/s on drive C:
so when I ghost image XP its on ~600M with compression..
this way if I need to format and clean install XP my applications and games data are still intact!
I have successfully getting the HD to work and at the same time corrupted my old 20G HD.. and also manage to recover the data ..
updating my BIOS fix it
Thanks everyone for the reply
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