Re: Can't boot
From: Saga (antiSpam_at_somewhere.com)
Date: 04/14/04
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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 10:22:16 -0500
Sounds like one of my 'puters!
First of all, it seems that you are nto confident about your hardware.
This is an issue, because if you expect the PC to boot properly, you
must have a solid start somewhere.
Do you have critical data that you need to recover? Of so, then that
is the first priority. Since you say that you can see the data, I assume
that recovery is not your problem.
Unfortunately, the only advice I can furnish is for you to troubleshoot
the hardware first. I have no idea what your availability of hardware is,
but I would start by swapping out components. Most preferably, place
the HD in another computer and try booting from there. If you have
only Windows installed, disk manager should not have corrupted your
partition when creating the new one. This happened to me, but I also had
Linux installed, so that posed a problem.
In your case, you may have to reinstall Win2K, but I wouldn't recommend
it until you are confident of your hardware. What does FDISK report when
you display partition information? Do the number make sense? In my case,
when I used Disk Manager to create the partiion and failed, I could still
boot
and see a 800GB partition, which would have been nice, except that I only
had a 40GB HD <g>. Finally, my solution was to reinstall everything, as the
PC became unbootable when I tried to remove the 800GB partition. I also
had a look at partiion recovery tools (used Google with "partition
recovery").
This is something that you might want to do, but then again, it all comes
down
to what is more convenient depending on how many resources you want to
invest inthis venture.
Best of luck to you!
Saga
"david carvalho" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9E3BF767-34B0-4166-80A8-E4FC8BA9F079@microsoft.com...
> 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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