Recovery of XP Will format the HARD drive
Hello
I had a virus problem, which is now resolved, but has damaged my Windows XP. Can I reload Windows XP from the recovery disk with on the reformatting of the hard drive?
If you have an older recovery CD which contains the standard mode and expert mode, then you should be able to choose a partition where the OS could be installed.
For example; If you have 2 C and D partitions, you can install the OS on the C partition using EXPERT MODE.
In this case only the C partition will be formatted.
But if you have a more recent recovery called RECO then you CD can't do.
In this case the use of the recovery CD will format the whole HARD drive
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