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system wont boot after trying to create partition

Posted: 12-10-2003, 01:26 AM
Rob
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I have a P4 1.4 with 256MB of RAM running XP Home. I installed partition Magic and tried to create a 10GB partition for backups and such. Durring the process partition Magic quite at about 30% and asked to reboot. On rebooting i get a blue screen for just a second after the XP splash screen and it reboots, it just loops that way.Using Partition Magics utility it says drive c: has a seek error. drives are in NTFS and nothing ive tried lets me see the contents of drive c:. Even on trying to reinstall XP it shows that the drive is empty and wont let me install overtop the existing install, it wants to format. How can i repair this drive? Or at least access it to move my data. Thanks in advance
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Rich Barry
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Re: system wont boot after trying to create partition
Posted: 12-10-2003, 07:32 PM
Rob, did you try Powerquests website for any info? Can you install the
Recovery Console from the WinXP CD and see if
you could maybe repair the Boot sector and/or BootCFG. Go here for more
info
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];Q314058
"Rob" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello
> I have a P4 1.4 with 256MB of RAM running XP Home. I installed partition
Magic and tried to create a 10GB partition for backups and such. Durring the
process partition Magic quite at about 30% and asked to reboot. On rebooting
i get a blue screen for just a second after the XP splash screen and it
reboots, it just loops that way.Using Partition Magics utility it says drive
c: has a seek error. drives are in NTFS and nothing ive tried lets me see
the contents of drive c:. Even on trying to reinstall XP it shows that the
drive is empty and wont let me install overtop the existing install, it
wants to format. How can i repair this drive? Or at least access it to move
my data. Thanks in advance


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