no partitions on hard drive

[mark C]

If your partitions were deleted for real, then you need to
reinstall XP. You may be having a MBR error. If it all of
a sudden decided to not find the partition you may be able
to fix it.

Boot on the XP CD, select R for repair console.
when it asks for the administrator password, press enter
for a blank one or put in the password.

At the prompt: type fixboot /r
and press enter.
next type chkdsk /r and press enter.
This will take some time, but you may be able to boot
after this.


To re-install OEM or Retail versions, Boot on CD, delete
any partition you find, create new NTFS partition quick
format, and then install.

Mark C

>-----Original Message-----
>the partitions on my hard drive have been deleted and now
>I can not start my system or reload windows XP. I get the
>message 'error loading operating software'. Can you
>format the hard drive and reload xp, if so, is it
>different than how you do it for Win 98?
>Thanks
>.
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