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In my wisdom I decided to try to resize my XP partition using Partition Magic, so that I could have an extra partition for my documents and such. On reboot I scheduled a resize to happen (had 17Gb free space on that partition and wanted to crop it by 10Gb) and then assign the unallocated space as an NTFS partition.
After rebooting the computer, pm started to resize the partition. It didn't finish but it was cleaning up files or something at the time. Then an error said something about a file being too large to move, so it had to reboot. I assume the problem may have been due to fragmented files, but I don't know.
Now when I boot into XP partition it displays the boot logo for a couple seconds then reboots. Rebooting in safe mode works for a while then reboots. I can boot into my fedora partition ok.
The pm rescue disk seems useless. When I use the pm bootdisks pm shows that the partition that I wanted to create is not there, the C partition still takes up all the space. There is now no free space and the label for the partition is ?????????????... A scan of the partition gives a critical seek error.
Any help would be appreciated!
sounds like time to boot to your XP CD and try a repair installation .. The xp cd will have options to set and resize your partitions.
best of luck Frank :
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Something to consider... Hard Drives are very cheap presently.. I have added a second slave HD to my machine to use only for data storage.
best of luck Frank :
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Thanks for the advice!
Have already tried the xp cd, cannot get into the recovery console as setup could not find a hard disk!!
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I don't think recovery is possible. If you have valuable dta on the drive that you absolutely need, use a file recovery program. Then do a clean install (repartitioning the drive).
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Yeah, thats pretty much what I expected - thanks.
Don't have any valuable data but do have some files that it would be useful to keep...
Do you know which recovery programs are best - there seem to be many.
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GetDataBack from runtime,[upper rt corner this page] seems to be about the best although there are some free ones that work. Use the search function top of this page.
http://computervitals.com/
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Before you invest in data recovery and reformat your machine try the following.
Boot up with your xp cd and choose to use the recovery console. Once the console is loaded run the following command: fixmbr
this will write a new master boot record which is probably what got corrupted in the first place. Afterwards try to reboot.
-freddy
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Like I said before, I can't access the recovery console!
Its ok though, I downloaded the Ultimate Boot CD and some of the programs there can recognise the files that I lost. I'm gonna use this as an excuse to do some spring cleaning anyway and come away with only what I need!
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If you didn't follow a few ideas first you might be in big trouble. Do you have backups? Did you update PM to 8+? You did not try any lower level PM on it did you? Did you make disaster floppies before you tried this? Did you make a copy of the MBR?
If no to all then might try Ranish and see if you can view how far it got. If all else fails use Ranish to make a standard mbr.
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Just an update - figured out I couldn't boot into the recovery console because I didn't specify to use SATA drivers. Then using checkdisk it took about 5 minutes to repair the file structure. All is fine. Simple eh?
By the way jefro, yes I did have backups of the important stuff, Yes I used pm 8.0, the disaster floppies were useless as I explained, and yes there was a backup of the mbr. :-p
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