WinXP: File Record Segment nnnn is unreadable?

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Published on 2011-03-19T23:01:52Z Indexed on 2011/03/20 0:12 UTC
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I'm pretty sure that the drive is toast, except for the fact that this error is only showing up on one partition (it's out of a Dell computer, and has a couple of Dell partitions, which boot and work fine.)

I've already purchased another hard drive, and re-installed WinXP, but when I re-connect this drive and reboot, I'm getting thousands of these errors.

Is there any chance of recovering any files off this? Should I prevent XP from trying to resolve the problems?

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