Re: Desperately seeking your help

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From: Ron Martell (ron.martell_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/27/04


Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 07:43:21 GMT


"Rimo" <Rimo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hi
>I have a HP Pavilion with XP already installed on it. I partitioned the hard
>disk using Partitioin Magic 7.0 and installed XP Dutch version for my kids.
>Everything was ok. When I made the partition I wanted to make it NTFS but
>Partition Magic refused that and made it as FAT32. So I went to the RUN
>command and converted the partition into NTFS using the command "convert
>c:/fs:ntfs". It was successful; however, when the system restated it counld
>not boot to the boot magic menu at all. I would get a statement that no
>operating system is available. How do resolve this problem? Your help
>plzzzzzzzzz.
>
>Rimo

Boot with your Dutch Windows XP CD and follow the instructions at
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm to do a Repair
Install.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada

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