System Volume Information wasn't created by Partition Magic, it was created by Windows Xp's system restore -- to be able to delete it, disable it from My Computer properties.
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Originally posted by Choli
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the software crashed (after rebooting, but before entering into windows (xp))
That's why I suggested to use the recovery disks, not doing it from Windows 
Too late
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Originally posted by Guido
Why do you need to format? Why not just delete the windows and program files folders (the root, docs and settings, etc.) from a DOS boot disk (or elsewhere since you have NTFS) and reinstall again?
I also like to format instead of doing that. Formating checks for bad clusters and if you install a system from scratch you avoid fragmention (<- i don't know very well how to explain this)
If you have 20gb+ of data to backup, I guess it's a better deal to defrag it manually instead of formatting
As for the bad clusters, if the HD works perfectly (as it usually does) I don't really care if there are 2, 3 or 50 clusters wrong
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