Can't boot

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From: david carvalho (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/14/04 

Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 02:21:05 -0700

Hi !
I have an old pc with a 80 GB disk, wich was working ok with a 10 GB win2k partition ant the rest was free.
Once I needed the free space so I created (tryed) a partition from all that free space. Something went wrong.
The machine crashed. I had to restart it the hard way. The computer doesn't boot any more. The disk is set as a
Secondary master. I have some board problems, and when I try to set it in the primary IDE channel, it takes to long
to recognise the disk. So the board may not be 100%.
I've tryed the emergency boot from win2k pro cd, fixmr, fixboot, fdisk /mbr but still it can't boot, but I can see the data on the disk.
How can I get the pc to boot ?
thanks !
dave

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