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Hi, i really need your help! I formatted my C: drive and reinstalled windows xp pro, no problems there. But now i can't seem to use my other hard drive, which i didn't format. When i try to access it it says that the drive isn't formatted. Please help me! i had almost 200GB of stuff on there is everything lost?
If it matters i had previously partitioned the drive using Partition Magic.
i had almost 200GB of stuff on there is everything lost? If it matters i had previously partitioned the drive using Partition Magic.
I just wanted to say that I suspect the problem may be due to PM. Since I’m not well versed with PM, I hope someone who knows more will show up and help you out. Good luck.
i_XpUser
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If you formatted your main drive - I assume
it is fat32 then instead of ntfs.
If your slave drive is ntfs then you'll
need to convert the main drive to ntfs.Go to a cmd prompt and type in:
help convert
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"If you formatted your main drive - I assume
it is fat32 then instead of ntfs.
If your slave drive is ntfs then you'll
need to convert the main drive to ntfs."Not true, Win2K and XP can work just fine with mixed partition types.
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I installed partion magic. When I start the program i get the following error message: "Disk 2 (131069MB 6709c 255h 63s) appears to have partitions created using a different drive geometry (2h 0s). This serious problem can lead to data loss. No partition manipulations should be made to this disk using this product or the operating system's products. You should back up the data on this disk, delete all partitions, create new partitions under the new drive geometry, and then restore your data using the back up".
I think this is what's causing the problems.
In partition magic I can see the drive and the same amount of disk space is occupied as before I formatted and reinstalled windows but I can't access the data.
Is there anyway I can back up the data or is it lost?
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Steve,
What I think happens here is that before you format drive C, PM created some reference file for drive d. This file was then stored somewhere on the system partition (Windows registry?).
What follows is that after you format the system partition; all information about drive d is irreversibly lost.
As I stated earlier in my post, I'm hoping someone more experienced with PM will be willing to help you out.
i_XpUser
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Hi, and thank you for your help.
I managed to resolve the problem. I ran a rescue disk created by partition magic and got the same error messages there but somehow after I had rebooted in to windows the disk was there again and everything on it works! And the error message about the drive geometry doesn't appear anymore either!
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Hi Steve,
Thanks for posting back. I'm glad everything turned out well for you.
Regards
i_XpUser
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Ok, let me explain what happened to my hard drive.
At first I was running Windows xp, it was running very
good, then I decided to install slackware on my current
hard drive, so I decided to partition my hard drive
with partition magic.OK, I partitioned my hard drive
and set up my windows partition to 70 GB and 20 for.
slackware. I installed slackware and everything was fine
until I repartitioned my hard drive and installed Suse
the worst distro ever. I install Suse and it f---ed up
my hard drive and it configured the MBR of my hard drive, at this point
everything "looks" good suse boot screen appears and it list
the 4 operating systems. But when I try to access my Windows xp partition
it says something like this "file system type unknown partition type x07, chainloader +1"
Ok, I though this was something suse did because I been running slackware for several months
and all this started just after I installed suse. I decided to delete the
suse partition so I deleted the partition and the same error appeared
"file system type unknown partition type x07, chainloader +1""
at this time I could press enter and a list of my installed operating systems appeared
I selected windows xp and it started. I ran partition magic to have a picture
of how my hard drive looked and this is the results 'www.geocities.com/nek0nline/error.jpg
www.geocities.com/nek0nline/error2.jpg'
I am trying to fix this partition problem so it can look like the first hard drive
I can access the operating systems and all that but the same error keeps on
coming up every time I boot into windows. And I also want to know how to change the
Master Boot loader to default or what ever you call it.
2nd hard drive
windows xp
40gb20gb
extended
swap
root/hdd6/
usr/hdd7/
home/hdd8/
opt/hdd9
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http://www.geocities.com/nek0nline/error.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/nek0nline/error2.jpgThanks for your help!
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