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Answer» As I recall, after we changed the hard drive (from the old 40gig to the new 80gig) and finally bought a brand spanking new XP program and installed it on the new hard drive, it seemed to work okay. Then we put the old 'office' program on it and, well, here we are. :-/ (oh, ANOTHER note here, I just remembered: when the old 40gig was still in the machine and it was our main computer, we got majorly spammed. I don't know if that would affect it either way, but there you are.)If I were you I'd start again. (You should be an expert by now) Download the protection listed at the bottom of this post. Fresh install of XP without connecting to the net. Install the downloaded protection. Connect to the net & update the installed protection. Update XP. Play with XP until you are sure it's 100% OK. Install 'Office' and see what happens then. (If it SCREWS up you can always un-install it) Before all of that you MAY wish to try... Free online virus scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan.htm Free online spyware scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/spyxposer/com/spyxposer_principal.htm ... just to see. (An unprotected computer can be compromised in no time at all when CONNECTED to the net) Quote Format will DELETE only the information on your disk. Fdisk will delete & re-create partitions on your disk. So what have you decided to do? Hi, peeeeeeeeelz help me I have to hardisk C "master" and D "Slave" on my win xp pc. I used fdisk and deleted my primary "C" master disk insted of D. I restarted my pc with ctrl+alt and delete and I remembered that I used fdisk on "C" in witch I have very important information. Is there any DOS command like unfdisk? or any Driver uttilites for datarecovery. I did not format C: until now but I cant access it. Can you please help me, thank you. You should really start a new topic to get help quicker rather than hijacking this thread, but you are probably SOL unless you want to pay someone a lot of money to try to do a data extraction. If you have fdisked the thing it will be beyond your scope.

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As I recall, after we changed the hard drive (from the old 40gig to the new 80gig) and finally bought a brand spanking new XP program and installed it on the new hard drive, it seemed to work okay. Then we put the old 'office' program on it and, well, here we are. :-/

(oh, ANOTHER note here, I just remembered: when the old 40gig was still in the machine and it was our main computer, we got majorly spammed. I don't know if that would affect it either way, but there you are.)If I were you I'd start again. (You should be an expert by now)

Download the protection listed at the bottom of this post.

Fresh install of XP without connecting to the net.

Install the downloaded protection.

Connect to the net & update the installed protection.

Update XP.

Play with XP until you are sure it's 100% OK.

Install 'Office' and see what happens then.
(If it SCREWS up you can always un-install it)

Before all of that you MAY wish to try...
Free online virus scan
http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan.htm
Free online spyware scan
http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/spyxposer/com/spyxposer_principal.htm

... just to see. (An unprotected computer can be compromised in no time at all when CONNECTED to the net) Quote

Format will DELETE only the information on your disk.
Fdisk will delete & re-create partitions on your disk.

So what have you decided to do?

Hi, peeeeeeeeelz help me
I have to hardisk C "master" and D "Slave" on my win xp pc. I used fdisk and deleted my primary "C" master disk
insted of D. I restarted my pc with ctrl+alt and delete and I remembered that I used fdisk on "C" in witch I have very important information. Is there any DOS command like unfdisk? or any Driver uttilites for datarecovery. I did not format C: until now but I cant access it. Can you please help me, thank you.
You should really start a new topic to get help quicker rather than hijacking this thread, but you are probably SOL unless you want to pay someone a lot of money to try to do a data extraction. If you have fdisked the thing it will be beyond your scope.

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