We suspect that it was partitioned & the 2nd partition is invisible. Is there not a way that I can extract the data from my Hard drive, I tried but it said that I could not save it to the C: drive, does this mean I need a 2nd Hard Drive, if so then I can always borrow my other computer's C: drive to do the deed.Īll I want to do is make a bootable disk to run gparted to see if we can save a friends Hard drive that Nero Express Essentials squeezed down from 20 Gig to 7 Gig when he tried to copy his old C drive to a bigger one, but ended up with 2 small drives instead. I have downloaded ImgBurn but to make the CD bootable I have to extract the boot data from the 'Installation Disk' which I don't have.

The problem is I have a Dell Optiplex GX270, that I bought from 123 Compute with a stripped down version of Windows XP Pro & of course it came without the XP installation disks. Make sure you dont save it in the WXPVOLEN folder. Pick a destination folder and name for the file and then click the Save button. Select the drive with your original XP install disc in it and click the Extract Boot Image button. Under New volume label, you can enter whatever name you like for your USB drive. If you have your original XP install disc, proceed with step 4.a. Right-click on the CD-ROM symbol and select the ISO file. How to make windows USB Boot disk for XP, 7 and Vista Here is yet another tool to make a Windows USB installer from any windows DVD or CD or even a windows ISO. I've searched in Google, but all I seem to find is how to make a CD to reinstall XP. Select Create a bootable disk using and the option ISO Image. I am at the end of my string here & am suffering from information overload.

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