re: how to boot to dismounted NTFS partition? Saturday, July 17, 2004 at 12:48 pm Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by aaa (1 messages posted) well I also got the same error and spent a day so hope my solution helps someone. In my case I wasnt even able to get to logon screen, it was freezing right at the start and recovery console didnt work either but I was able to boot and save all the data in the end so keep reading... What happened to me was - after merging partitons and rebooting there was no drive letter assigned so that was holding me from booting - I used partition magic rescue disks and created another partition and installed a fresh copy of xp (obviously no need to do that if you already have a working one). I couldnt solve the problem with partition magic so I installed Acronis Partition Expert and assigned a letter to the problem drive (any unused letter would do I guess) and then configured bootmagic to start on that one and it worked. Everything seems to be in place and working ok - hope it helps... ********************************************************************************** On Saturday, February 15, 2003 at 8:35 pm, Rockypierre wrote: >Partition Magic reports error #1516 Partition improperly dismounted: > >"The partition dirty flag is set in a restart record in the journal file. This error >may have been caused by a power failure or system crash while the Windows NT operating >system was writing the partition. >This problem can often be resolved by running CHKDSK /F on the affected drive." > >OK, but how do I run CHKDSK /F, since Win 2000 Professional will not boot? > >I can boot to DOS from a floppy, but DOS cannot see the NTFS partition. I CAN boot >to the NTFS partition using Active@ Partition Recovery, but since I have no backup >of the MBR, I cannot restore it. > >What I need to do is boot to the NTFS partition in DOS, then run CHKDSK /F. How >do I do this? Written in response to: how to boot to dismounted NTFS partition? (Rockypierre: Saturday, February 15, 2003 at 8:35 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] how to boot to dismounted NTFS partition? (Rockypierre: Sat, Feb 15, 2003, 8:35 pm) re: how to boot to dismounted NTFS partition? (Bob: Sun, Feb 16, 2003, 11:53 am) re: how to boot to dismounted NTFS partition? (Xerpher: Wed, Jun 11, 2003, 10:19 am) re: how to boot to dismounted NTFS partition? (Ragnar Schierholz: Tue, Jun 17, 2003, 9:23 am) re: how to boot to dismounted NTFS partition? (James: Mon, Jun 23, 2003, 10:20 am) re: how to boot to dismounted NTFS partition? (Ragnar Schierholz: Mon, Jun 23, 2003, 1:09 pm) re: how to boot to dismounted NTFS partition? (Timberly: Sun, Jun 29, 2003, 1:57 pm) re: how to boot to dismounted NTFS partition? (xcepth: Thu, Jul 3, 2003, 9:40 pm) re: how to boot to dismounted NTFS partition? (Peter Dexter: Fri, Jul 4, 2003, 10:40 am) re: how to boot to dismounted NTFS partition? (damian harvey: Mon, Jul 21, 2003, 2:12 pm) re: how to boot to dismounted NTFS partition? (Peter Dexter: Wed, Jul 23, 2003, 2:21 am) re: how to boot to dismounted NTFS partition? (M. W. I. Prod.: Sat, Jul 26, 2003, 4:07 am) re: how to boot to dismounted NTFS partition? (Duane: Fri, Jun 11, 2004, 5:17 am) re: how to boot to dismounted NTFS partition? (K: Sat, Jan 28, 2006, 11:15 am) re: how to boot to dismounted NTFS partition? (Rinus: Mon, Jul 28, 2003, 7:47 am) re: how to boot to dismounted NTFS partition? (aaa: Sat, Jul 17, 2004, 12:48 pm) re: how to boot to dismounted NTFS partition? (Art: Wed, Feb 8, 2006, 8:03 am) re: how to boot to dismounted NTFS partition? (Doc_Chiron: Mon, Mar 23, 2009, 8:43 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum