Okay, big problem here (at least to me...) If somebody could help it would be greatly appreciated. So here's the story: I was having some problems with some memory loss so I DECIDED to reinstall XP (had worked in the past.) However, while reinstalling the power went off. Now the hard drive seems to have lost it's volume label (MBR, I think.) If I boot up with a boot disk and fdisk it's only shows one drive C but it's actually the boot disk 41,000 bytes.... I pulled the HD and PUT it into another computer and looked at it under computer management and it shows the primary partition as bad but the logical 2nd partition as healthy (it was partitioned as C and D.) I think I might be able to reformat with fdisk but I don't want to lose that information. I've tried all the solutions I found here fdisk /mbr, fdisk /cmbr C:, ETC, no luck. Any ideas? Also, if this turns out to be fubar - if I reformat the bad partition using another computer will it erase the data on the 2nd partition. sorry for the book and thanks in advace for your time.FDISK is a program for giving drives a partition (whether a ROOT partiton, or an extended partition)

Using FDISK will usually destroy your data (from what I have been told)

(Data = Date-ah)

If you would like to fix the master boot record, at the DOS prompt, type:
C:
A:\fdisk /mbr

If you have an operating system, such as Linux, that uses the master boot record to store its boot information, you will have to reinstall its boot loader. It will not affect Windows XP from what I understand, I have tried this on Windows 95. (Why dont you wait until someone else stops by and verifies this information)