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OK heres my dilemma....
yesterday during the afternoon my wife was trying to burn a cd using nero and got up and walked away from pc, my 1 and half year old daughter got to pc ...not sure what she pressed but now my 120gigger is blank.....i have 2 hard drives 1 20gig w/XP on it and the 120g for everything else it now shows that there is 0g used and 0g available i have taken the pc apart to barebones and put it back together....XP will not format it.....pleeaase help me i can deal with the fact that my progs are gone but i need windows to reformat so i can start refilling it
its an amd 1700+
1g ram
1 20g
1 120g
nvidia vid card

OK I TRIED A DATA RECOVERY PROG THAT DIDNT WORK I GET THIS ERROR
error no.23
drv:129 LBA:2 blocks:4096

Start / Programs / Accessories / System Tools / System Restore.
brad

You can also use the Windows Recovery Console to recover your drive.

Start your computer by using the Windows XP CD-ROM.
At the "Welcome to Setup" screen, press F10 or press R to repair, and start the Windows Recovery Console.

At the select the windows installation you want to repair window,
type the number (1) of your windows XP installation and then press enter. (if you just press enter it will reboot your system)

At the command prompt type “chkdsk d /p” (without the quotes) where d is the drive letter that you want to repair.

ok the drive im tryin to fix does not have windows on it.....ive used maxtors powermax utility but when i try to boot to the disk i made with it my pc tell me that it cannot load dos