Re: Problem booting after resizing partition


"Pritcham" <dontwanttogivemyname@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> I'm really hopeing someone will be able to help me (or point me in the
> right direction). Yesterday I noticed that my main partition was
> running a little slack on space so, as there was another (less
> frequently used) partition on the same drive I decreased the size of
> that partition and added the extra space to the main (boot) partition
> using Partition Magic (v7 I think, if that's important). Since doing
> that I've not been able to boot the PC at all and am beginning to panic
> a little now as there's too much on there for me to just re-format and
> start again.
>
> I'm running Windows 2000 (SP4) and the boot process goes as far as the
> logon screen, once I've entered my details it comes up with the usual
> "loading your settings" dialog and then nothing... just a blue, empty
> desktop (no icons at all, no task bar, no errors - nothing).
>
> I've gone into the Windows 2000 recovery console and ran CHKDSK on it
> with no errors reported, the one thing that I did notice was that the
> main drive letter seems to have changed - it was G:, and now it appears
> to be D:. Having noticed this I went into Acronis DiskDirector to try
> to change it back to G: to see if that would fix the issue but the
> "Change Drive letter" option doesn't even give "G:" as an option - all
> the other unused letters are there, just not G: (and there are no other
> drives mapped to G: either) so it looks like the os thinks that G is
> already taken. Having read a newsgroup post elsewhere I also ran
> FIXMBR and FIXBOOT just incase they solved the issue but they haven't.
>
> One other thing, while loading the Windows 2000 setup disk (so I could
> actually get to the recovery console) an error message was displayed
> saying "Disk I/O error - status 00001000" (although it still manages to
> boot from the CD ok). I've googled this error and most of the
> responses I came across seemed to imply a hardware failure but if that
> was the case I would have thought this would have shown in the CHKDSK?
>
> Any pointers/help would really be appreciated
>
> Thanks a lot in advance
> Martin
>

Although the symptoms you describe are not typical for a changed
boot drive letter, this link might help:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188/EN-US/

You write "there's too much on there for me to just re-format and
start again.". If this is so then you should seriously consider an
imaging solution to protect your installation. Imaging programs cost
very little!



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