adamS2RST

Hi there,

I have been working on a machine to try and create more space on the system partition as it had only a handful of mb left! Anyway I was using a certain partitioning program and merged the extended partition with some un used space from the disk. (Left the system space alone firstly) I did this, just testing really and now the machine wont boot.

All i get is 'Press A Key To Reboot' each time.

I'm not quite sure what has happend, the program still think's all the data is there and I didn't actually do anything with the system / os partition so i'm not quite sure why the o/s is refusing to load (It seem's to think the primary partiton cannot be found?)

Any idea's what I can do to get it to boot again? - I've booted to dos and cannot see the C: drive at all, and no I can't boot to safe mode either

Any thought's?

Thanks

DanRSturbo

Run FDISK, and view partiton information in MSDOS. It will only show this if it's a FAT, or FAT 32 partition tho

adamS2RST

They are NTFS Dan....

I can tell i'm not going to be able to boot it again from that partition am i? - I will probably end up slaving the disk off and getting at all the data (I hope ) and then wiping the disk and creating one partition...fook knows why you would partition a measley 10GB disk - Well the machine is an old PII FFS!

DanRSturbo

You're fooked, unless you can run the repair feature of windows xp, it's pretty much game over i'm afraid m8

adamS2RST

What about slaving the disk off to get at the data? - That shouldn't be a problem should it

DanRSturbo

Well, the last time I had a partition error, I kissed goodbye to 40 gig's worth of MP3's m8.

I would throw in another drive as a master, (disconnect the one you want to get the data off), install XP or 2000, then connect up the other drive and cross your fingers

adamS2RST

Sorry Dan, I should have mentioned it's a 2K Pro box, not XP.

Anyway, just slaved the disc off to one of the XP test box's at work, job done

It's a little more work than I wanted, but at least it will be properly sorted from now on.

DanRSturbo

Sorted m8 You was lucky, let that be a lesson to you lad