> He booted a win98 box (with a fat32 hard disk) from bartpe then ran
> the xp chkdsk utility with a switch telling it to automatically fix
> all errors.

Uh oh, bad move. In such a case, i would have done a FDISK /mbr, which
might have fixed the thing. If not, there are still tools like the
Ranish Partition Manager, yet it will require some knowledge.

Still I wonder why the BartPE disk botched it. FAT32 is available for
NT versions, too, and shouldn't have been changed by an XP prog.


Gabriele Neukam

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