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Hello,

I own a system with Win XP OS;I tried to install Linux Mandrake in dual boot configuration,so partitioning the remaining HD space,but dring the process there was a black out;I extracted the Linux DVD and rebooted the system,but now an error message appears "missing operating system".
I completed the Linux OS installation hoping that with its rebooting loader it fixed the problem,but nothing happens...
It runs only LinuX Mandrake.
I have no recovery cd or dvd and the dealer told me that they aren't available.
Have you agood idea/advice to recovery my Win OS and my data or are they definitively lost?

Any reply will be much appreciated.

Sincerely

You can start the installation of Win XP from its bootable cd, then you can use the setup program of Win XP to view if there is or not the partition where you installed Win XP.

It's not much, but you can know if the partition there still is or not.

If there is, I think data are not all lost, but I don't know how to retrieve.

To retrieve data you can connect the hard disk to another pc, but only after set the HDD as Slave. When the pc starts, you could see a total of three HDD (your two partitions are viewed by the pc as two different HDD).

I think you can only access to the Win XP partition, because the other partition has the file system not readable by Win XP.