Massive problem after Partitioning C: Drive

[The Black Death]

Originally Posted by Les

While I'm here, have you considered not partitioning at all and using separate drives instead? Physical hard-drives and even the smaller SSD's aren't as expensive as they used to be and using them can provide more storage, performance and data safety benefits than partitioning. If you have a choice in the matter I'd say that'd be the way to go.

I have 16 HD slots, I was just experimenting, seemed harmless at the time :L

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by The Black Death

I can't because I don't no how to get to the blue screen BIOS with asus. With that I can only select to boot the Hard Drive or DVD, not individual partitions

Keep pressing "delete" rapidly on start up


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I have 16 HD slots, I was just experimenting, seemed harmless at the time :L


Install win 7 on one of them...you will be able then to access files from the original install...and Win 7 will also write a new boot for the original install, but it will now be "D"...any way, you should not loose anything, and you will need to get rid of one of them because of product registration.

[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...