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Originally posted by Hivetyrant:
The BIOS backup is there specifically for situations like that 
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But it shouldn't take 15 minutes plus to transfer BIOS data from the HDD unless the chip is damaged, should it? I don't know if this is even possible, but thinking back to when i first pressed reset, i did it slowly and not to the point where the button clicked. Could the system have reset itself dozens of times in that instant and damaged the hardware in the process? I can't think of any other reason why the chip was working one minute and fried the next.
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Originally posted by Hivetyrant:
Anyways, if you had the data encrypted using the WinXP NTFS encryption system, then yes your data is gone forever UNLESS you created a password backup disk (which nobody does)
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No password backup disk for me. Didn't even know i could make one. Looks like i'll have to get over it.
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Originally posted by Hivetyrant:
If he installed XP Home on the HDD without formatting, he would have been well aware that XP Pro was on there (it tells you during install)
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Ya, that's why i'm annoyed. There was some minor confusion created by the label of the second HDD (called, quite erroneously, "Windows95B") but i pointed that out to him. I still don't know why it was even necessary to reinstall an OS. Other than the new motherboard driver, i thought a restore point could fix the problem. He was talking to someone on the phone when he did it, so maybe his processor wasn't up to multi-tasking.
