Massive problem after Partitioning C: Drive

[FG28_Kodiak]

The little partition you trying to remove, includes the Windows Bootloader, so its a bad Idea.

So you should use Bootrec.exe for the first repair attempt
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392

if this not work you should use TESTDISK (If TESTDISK doesn't do the trick, bye bye Data )
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

[seaeye]

you could try a program called g-parted to get rid of the new partition. Then once you've done that try booting.

if that doesn't work, you could try the windows repair disc again.

no need to lose all your data though. if you've got another pc/laptop handy you could plug that hard drive into it and access it from within the OS of the other pc to recover data you want to keep, then reformat and install windows fresh.

[The Black Death]

Originally Posted by seaeye

you could try a program called g-parted to get rid of the new partition. Then once you've done that try booting.

Again, good advice but how am I supposed to download a program if I cant access my C: drive OS

[seaeye]

Originally Posted by The Black Death

Again, good advice but how am I supposed to download a program if I cant access my C: drive OS

Download the program on the PC you're using to talk to us. Then make it a bootable CD/DVD and stick it in your broken PC.

[MadBlaster]

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/operat...txprepair1.htm

I've been through similar what you are experiencing. The link above explains everything you need to do. Read it carefully.

The crux of it is this. Boot from your XP disk. When you get to the blue screen menus, you will be doing a repair of XP. But do not press R or select the second bullet, "recovery console" option (pic at slide 4 /10 from link above to see what I'm talking about). You want to pick the top bullet, "To set up window xp now". Then at slide 5/10 say "yes" to the end user agreement. Then slide 6/10 you should see your C drive in the option box. If it is not there, then stop. Something is wrong.

My advice is free, so assume at your own risk

Addition:
- to boot from the disk, you need to go into the bios and set it up to boot from the DVD drive.
- after you have repaired XP, you need to go back in the bios and set it up to boot from C drive again.

[The Black Death]

Originally Posted by MadBlaster

My advice is free, so assume at your own risk

Thanks, Fixed!

[the Dutchman]

So finally The Black Death meets The Blue Screen of Death and defeats him!

[Burning Bridges]

Originally Posted by seaeye

Download the program on the PC you're using to talk to us. Then make it a bootable CD/DVD and stick it in your broken PC.

Cool Look at the date ..

[_79_dev]

Your problem seems to be messed up... I don't trust repairing windows

Solution no1: There is project called Grub4dos. You see when u load windows from hard drive it will load from hdd0 wich will be the very first partition on your hard drive, if You have more than one system installed it's becoming messy because u have to edit boot.ini file and write information into MBR of hard drive to boot theme in proper order. In Your case u will have to download Grub4dos on let's say USB, boot up from USB and edit boot.ini and partition names. This way u will be able to recover any lost files if any, because You probably used part of drive C to create new partition so this part of hard drive belonged ealier to drive C(some data could be lost). Unfortunately windows always boots up from very first partition of very first hard drive ...

Solution no2: create live cd of Linux ubuntu, boot it up from USB or cd, copy and back up files from whatever partition u want. Use disk managmest software to repair ur partition status, make sure u got everything backed up, format partitions and just install fresh windows...

[The Black Death]

Originally Posted by FG28_Kodiak

The little partition you trying to remove, includes the Windows Bootloader, so its a bad Idea.

So you should use Bootrec.exe for the first repair attempt
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392

if this not work you should use TESTDISK (If TESTDISK doesn't do the trick, bye bye Data )
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

Thanks for the suggestions, but how am I supposed to download programs if I can't boot my C drive, it gets to the loading screen, and before the windows screen i get BootMGR. Is the little partition that important, I just made it?? I dont care about deleting it. I just want to load my C drive, all the stuff is still there.