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Installing Office 2000 Premium

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April 1, 2003 12:20:08 AM

I recently bought a new 60Gb hard drive and added it to my computer which had already WINME on a 10Gb. I still don't like the format of the new WINXP as it doesn't really allow me to play and reconfigure things in it, so I didn't want to change the OS on my 10Gb. I did, however put it on my 60Gb. (I thought maybe I can grow to like it or something.) Anyways, I wanted to have Office 2000 Premium programs installed (ie excel, word, etc). It installed okay, but when I restarted it, my computer would not start. My 10Gb was my boot drive! I fdisked the thing, and it showed that my 10Gb HD had no format (ie no FAT32 or NTFS)!

Please, can someone help me or at least give me some advice to recover those files. I don't want to reformat my hard drive.

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April 1, 2003 12:35:11 AM

Ok, first thing... XP is highly configurable. Look around the property sheets and do some web searches for XP tweaks... you'll be amazed how much you can do to it. A little homework goes a long way with NT based systems.

On the lost format problem... there are data recovery companies that can pull stuff off a "departitioned" hard disk... but they are plenty expensive. Unless you have irreplacable data of some real value on that disk, I'd say just repartition, reformat and put everything back on it... It will be quicker and cheaper.



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