This system has two physical hard drives, one 40GB Maxtor IDE with two partitions (10GB for Windows and 30GB for everything else) and one Hitachi Deskstar 60GB IDE. A few days ago Windows XP Pro stopped loading. It would reach the screen that says "Windows XP Professional" with the animated loading bar. But after a while I would get a BSOD for about a split second and it would restart.
I put the Maxtor as a slave on another computer to see if there was really something wrong. When I try to browse through the 10GB partition with Windows in it I get a message: "Drive is not formatted. Would you like to format it now?" However, I can still browse the 30GB partition.
Is there any way I can retrieve some documents on the 10GB partition?