Thank you for the assistance...I tried the methods that were in the link you posted, but to no avail. I'm really baffled here, because I've tried everything I know how to get this corrected. I'm at the point now where the data on the drive doesn't matter, I just want to get it formatted and an os put back on there.
Basically, this drive was (for some reason) partitioned...it was an 80gb hdd, seperated into 4 and 76gb partitions. What ended up happening was I attempted to combine the partitions using Partition Magic, but it was unable to do so without formatting the drive, so I figured, what the hell, I'll leave it the way it is. But now, since this video driver mixup, I wanted to get it back up to speed, but I can't do anything. Each time I try to boot using an xp cd, both XP + SP2 and SP3 cd's, it doesn't give me the option of the repair using "R", it will copy the files like it always does, but before it hits the gui section, it will revert back to the bsod and I'm back to square one. I've tried to fix this, but somehow, now, the 4gb partition is the only one reading as NTFS, and the other 76 doesn't even register. Ideas? I've tried using fdisk...the 4gb ntfs registers fine, but the rest of the space is like, I don't even remember, but it's less than 10gb, and it doesn't have a file system associated with it, so there's nothing I can do with it. I added this remaining space as a primary dos or an extended drive (don't remember), but that still doesn't associate it with ntfs. I'm considering that perhaps this hdd is now full of bad sectors or something, but when I set it to primary slave on my father's machine, I can still see the data within explorer. I'm really at a loss here...?
JP
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by: CallandorPosted on 2006-04-07 at 11:24:26ID: 16403094
Your friend caused a video driver error http://support.microsoft.c
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