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Re: Please help



On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 06:17:15PM -0600, David Kwinter wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> It seems that I have become stranded in the middle of the installation
> process. I installed everything from Windows XP, rebooted then got stuck at
> the point of making a new partition. Control-alt-deleting restarts my
> computer, but I can't get back to my old system.
> 
> I can't make a new partition because the current single partition uses all
> 40GB of my hard disk.
> 
> My computer is effectively inoperable and I need to get back to my valuable
> files and Windows XP.
> 
> What should I do?

You might be able to get back into XP safe mode by hitting F8 at just the 
right moment during the boot, unless you actually initialized the partition.

Or possibly your XP system recovery CD. 

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