re: HDD Partition gone south...
Friday, April 7, 2006 at 11:37 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6910 messages posted)
Partition Magic now owned by Symantec is well known to trash the drive that contains
your Windows install especially if it is NTFS. FAT 32 doesn't seem to present the
same problem. You really need to slave the drive into another machine (or add another
drive into your system) and use recovery software to try and rescue your data. It
most often takes a professional recovery program to do it in this case. Then you
will probably have to repartition and reinstall.. When dealing with NTFS or a recovery
partition installed by a computer manufacturer, this is a more common outcome and
mistake by most users, leaving you with a big problem.. :-(
On Friday, April 7, 2006 at 9:30 pm, Chris wrote:
>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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