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So, my computer which is a Celeron running XP stopped working. After the initial display of the BIOS screen during bootup, I get blank screen. No error messages. No beeping. I use a bootup disk and the bootup rescue disk said I have a problem with my FAT system on the partition. I tried a little program which fits into a 1.44 meg diskette called Testdisk for DOS which is designed to fix partitions, and it did get me into C drive in DOS only so I could view the files with Testdisk but I can't get access with DOS with my regular bootup disk. By the way, Testdisk couldn't seem to fix my problem with the partition. I still can't boot into XP. Now the question, if I buy a new computer with XP or Windows 7 for the matter, and I install this hard drive as an extra, will the OS read my files? I have over 7 years worth of files on the hard drive.