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**Deleted090308** · 05-07-2008, 12:15 AM

When installing XP it must have written a new MBR/partition table.
XP without service packs will only recognize 128GB of the HDDs capacity.

I think you should use GetDataBack to recover important data before we try to fix the partitions with TestDisk.

05-07-2008, 12:15 AM	#6 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Re: Invalid boot sector and all partitions lost When installing XP it must have written a new MBR/partition table. XP without service packs will only recognize 128GB of the HDDs capacity. I think you should use GetDataBack to recover important data before we try to fix the partitions with TestDisk.