Problem with reinstalling Windows
Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2019 11:37 am
Hi, m8s!
I am new here and I am not a computer guru So, if my questions looks a bit stupid, don't throw tomatoes at me
I am using BootIt Bare Metal 1.35b. I have 750 GB HDD divided into four partitions with Windows XP installed on every partition. There is 8 MB unpartitioned space in front of all partions and 8 MB partition with BIBM installed somewhere between the partitions.
Everything was working fine till one nice day Windows crashed on the first partition. I have a lot of useful data on D:\ disk, so I decided to reinstall Windows XP to the disk C:\. I have done such reinstallings on other my laptops without problems. But in this case I can't do so, because Windows installer see only the Windows on the second partition and all other disk space is unpartitioned space (see attachment).
BIBM sees all partitions good, I can start all Windows except the broken one without problems. I have made the partitions which I wanted to save hidden before trying to install (that worked to me before in other installations), but it not helps.
How can I fix this problem?
I am new here and I am not a computer guru So, if my questions looks a bit stupid, don't throw tomatoes at me
I am using BootIt Bare Metal 1.35b. I have 750 GB HDD divided into four partitions with Windows XP installed on every partition. There is 8 MB unpartitioned space in front of all partions and 8 MB partition with BIBM installed somewhere between the partitions.
Everything was working fine till one nice day Windows crashed on the first partition. I have a lot of useful data on D:\ disk, so I decided to reinstall Windows XP to the disk C:\. I have done such reinstallings on other my laptops without problems. But in this case I can't do so, because Windows installer see only the Windows on the second partition and all other disk space is unpartitioned space (see attachment).
BIBM sees all partitions good, I can start all Windows except the broken one without problems. I have made the partitions which I wanted to save hidden before trying to install (that worked to me before in other installations), but it not helps.
How can I fix this problem?