Re: no operating system upon boot
From: Colin Barnhorst (colinbarharst(nojunk)_at_msn.com)
Date: 10/29/04
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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:44:20 -0600
Whatever.
"R. C. White" <rc@corridor.net> wrote in message
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> Hi, Colin.
>
>> You cannot format the system drive (C:) in Windows. It will stop you.
>
> Agreed!
>
>> Attempting to merge drives C: and D: in Drive Manager, however, removes
>> all partition information. The message you are getting says it all.
>
> Huh? What is Drive Manager? I know the WinNT4 utility Disk Manager. And
> I know the much-more-capable Win2K/XP utility Disk Management. But I'm
> not sure if I ever heard of Drive Manager? Was this just a slip of the
> tongue (or finger), or did you mean a different program? Maybe one that
> Sony supplies?
>
> In Disk Management, there's no way that I know of to even attempt to
> "merge" partitions. Or to directly convert a logical drive to a
> partition, primary or otherwise. Zattack would have had to: (1) delete
> logical Drive D:, leaving the extended partition empty; (2) delete the
> empty extended partition; then (3) create a new primary partition in the
> now-unallocated space. Then he could format Drive D: and use it.
>
> But this should not have left him unable to boot to WinXP still on C:.
> The message he is getting (operating system not found) should not appear
> in that case.
>
> I'll try to reply to Zattack's latest post, but I might not be able to do
> that until tomorrow.
>
> RC
> --
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
> rc@corridor.net
> Microsoft Windows MVP
>
> "Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(nojunk)@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:u5jrEMfvEHA.1204@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> You cannot format the system drive (C:) in Windows. It will stop you.
>> Attempting to merge drives C: and D: in Drive Manager, however, removes
>> all partition information. The message you are getting says it all.
>>
>> It is likely that the D: drive was a small partition (probably 1GB or so)
>> designed for backing up your Documents and Settings folder. If so,
>> merging the two might not gain you much. However you recover from this,
>> I suggest you buy an external hard drive to use to back up your system
>> regularly. If you decide to shop for an external drive, keep in mind
>> that your laptop should have a usb port to take advantage of an external
>> device and that you can buy external drives with bundled backup software.
>> Buy a drive that is at least double the size of the drive in your laptop.
>> It will also come in handy for storing some of the things that prompted
>> you to try to make more space.
>>
>> Use the restore disks that came with your computer. Your laptop requires
>> motherboard drivers, device drivers, and utility programs that are
>> specific for your computer and you need the restore program to get those
>> back onto your system. Good luck.
>>
>> "Zattack" <nospam@orionfirst.com> wrote in message
>> news:OHZ2UYevEHA.1292@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>>>I may be too late but... Have sony vaio laptop with XP home. Had drive
>>> partitioned to a c primary and d extended. Ran into issues as the c
>>> drive
>>> was full and nothing was going to d. Went into drive management and
>>> formatted d drive, as only data stored there was copies of program files
>>> that also existed in c drive. Upon attmpt to make it merge back with c
>>> drive, formatted it to also be primary drive. Didn't touch c drive, but
>>> upon restart laptop only displays one message: operating system not
>>> found.
>>>
>>> I have Sony recovery disks but they simply prompt me to totally reformat
>>> and
>>> start installation of system. Have I lost my data and is there any way
>>> to
>>> get the laptop to boot correctly to for now at least get back to where I
>>> was
>>> before the issues?
>
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