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pebe	Posted - Jun 07 2013 : 5:30:06 PM I'm in trouble again with XP. I made a backup copy of my c: partition on to the same disk, in error. I should have backed it up on to my second drive. It came up as a second partition, e:. The original c: showed up as type 'system' and the backup e: showed as 'boot'. I tried to remove the backup, but couldn't because it showed as 'active'. So I set it as 'inactive' and rebooted. I cannot boot because the drive is not recognized. I have tried several partition programs to try to recover the drive, without success. Can anyone suggest anything?
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Aaron Cake	Posted - Jun 08 2013 : 11:06:46 AM Boot up using the XP CD and enter the recovery tools. Follow these instructions to mark the partition active using diskpart(scroll down about half way): http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/dm_active_partition.mspx?mfr=true Reboot after and boot again using the recovery options from the CD. On the drive, run: fixmbr fixboot Reboot and you should be good to go. If the Windows bootloader still doesn't show up and boot Windows, download a copy of GRUB or you favourite bootloader and install it. It will replace the Windows boot loader and structure the drive correctly.

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