re: HDD Partition gone south...
Friday, April 7, 2006 at 11:39 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by AnchorMan
(1465 messages posted)
Three times a charm. You knew better. Follow the yellow brick posts... Slave it a
get your data off before you really screw it up. Once your data is safe, post back
and I will point you to a partition utility.
AnchorMan
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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