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A friend of mine seems to have a corrupted Windows XP - "Boot record not found".
Before she proceed with a reinstallation or recovery, she would like to check whether there is anything important on C: drive that she would like to backup.
While she is not competent enough to take out the harddisk and do the backup at ANOTHER computer, I tried to make her a boot disk so that she can do it under DOS.
So I created a boot disk from my XP running PC. But when I test it on my own PC, I get the error "Invalid drive specification" as I tried to go from A: to C: or D:.
So I created a bootable CD using Nero instead. This time, I got "Invalid directory specified" as I tried to do the same.

Any idea?

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A friend of mine seems to have a corrupted Windows XP ..... I tried to make her a boot disk so that she can do it under DOS.

Your friend and you are probably using the NTFS file system which cannot be accessed in DOS.

Try downloading the UBCD (Ultimate Boot CD) and USE one of its many utilities. But be careful which utility is selected, it's a powerful tool. Or there's NTFS4DOS.

Good luckHi DUSTY, thanks for the information. That is a great software that I've never knew
However, my friend seems to have a dying harddisk, because her MASTER harddisk is not shown in the explorer in UBCD.
So she has GIVEN up and will bring her harddisk to shop for backup.

Thanks.


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