HDD Partition gone south...
Friday, April 7, 2006 at 9:30 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Chris
(7 messages posted)
I recently made the stupid attempt to use 'Symantec's partition magic' to partition
my main hard drive(C) for a separate OS.
Well, when the PC restarted it kept saying that the wrong disk was inserted, to replace
it and restart. I did not have any disk inserted, and I think that it is attempting
to boot from the new partition, which does not have any OS on it yet.
Many attempts to boot off (D; recovery partition) failed. I then attempted to do
a recovery (with back-up) off the operating system disk, which resulted in the machine
to do a recovery every time it restarts now, without ever going through to windows.
I can't even seem to start in safe mode (F8 nor shift).
Please don't tell me I have to do a destructive recovery and reformat my hard drive.
I have about 150gigs of memories (pics etc.) and programs (most w/o backup) on there.
Can you think of anything I could do, or am doing wrong for that matter. I believe
that the system just does not recognize what letter drive to boot from(??), is there
anything I can change in the BIOS Settings?
Thanks
Chris
My System Specs:
Processor
AMD Athlon™ 64 4200+ dual core processor
2 x 512KB L2 cache | 2.20GHz | 2000MHz system bus
Operating System
Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005 Ru2
Chipset
NVIDIA® nForce® 410
Memory
2048MB DDR (4 x 512MB), 400Mhz, dual channel
Video
NVIDIA® GeForce® 6100 GPU
128MB shared video memory
TV Tuner
ATI Theater™ 550 pro TV tuner (with 3D comb)
Audio
6-channel (5.1) AC’97 audio
Hard Drive
320GB (7200 RPM, 2MB cache)
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