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itisme1760

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How is it that my hard drive partition for Windows XP go from NTFS to RAW. I found this out when I was trying to defrag the Windows side, and found out that none of the disk defraggers worked. How would I convert the HD from RAW to NTFS without losing all my data? Thanks.
 
How is it that my hard drive partition for Windows XP go from NTFS to RAW. I found this out when I was trying to defrag the Windows side, and found out that none of the disk defraggers worked. How would I convert the HD from RAW to NTFS without losing all my data? Thanks.
Erm...
Backup, and reinstall?
Good Luck!
 
Is there an alternative method? I am really hesitant on doing this as I have a few games that are SecuROM and I do not want them to act up, stupid copy protection.
 
Is there an alternative method? I am really hesitant on doing this as I have a few games that are SecuROM and I do not want them to act up, stupid copy protection.

Why would they act up? You would be reinstalling them on a formatted system, shouldnt be any issue at all.
 
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