Re: Converted C: (MAIN) from FAT32 to NTFS. Now won't boot - Why?
- From: "Og" <Og@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 02:56:57 -0800
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"Richard" <NOTMYEMAIL@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I had two bootable partitions C: (MAIN) and C: (WIN98) on disk 1.
> All my data was on D: and higher. I was busy converting D: and above,
> from FAT32, to NTFS. I had no problems, I did a few, but not all
> of the partitions. Then I chose to do the same with C: (MAIN) on
> disk, but now I cannot boot up.
>
> Okay, I had BootMagic installed and Grisoft Antivirus on my main bootable
> partition (C: (MAIN)). That's got XP on it. The other bootable partion I
> had
> WIN98SE on it (C: (WIN98)) which is still FAT32.
>
> After the first turn-of, just after using Partition Magic to convert the
> file system on C: (MAIN), the PC booted up, obviously found that
> C: (MAIN) File System needed to be converted, conversion was
> executed, then PC turned itself off again to once again,
> (post-conversion),
> boot up.
>
> But it did not boot up. I get a black screen, and right at the top from
> left to right appears some characters, actually something
> like:....|||||||.....|||||||||||||||.......|||||, then right at the end, a
> blinking cursor.
>
> Okay, now I installed a second HDD, drive 2, and put XP on it, and
> that's on IDE 0 - master. I've installed PartitionMagic on it, and
> BootMagic. The drive I cannot boot up from, my original drive 1,
> is one IDE 0 slave.
>
> Now I can of course boot into XP on drive 2, from C: and I can see
> all the files on on disk 1, and I can open them. And it is an NTFS as
> it should be. The drives/partitions on disk 1, now appear on drive 2 as
> D: (MAIN) (was C: (MAIN)) - to P:
>
> Okay, now I've done Norton Disk Doctor and it reported no errors on disk1.
> I've run Partition Info and no errors. However, when in Partion Magic and
> do
> a check for errors I get Error 993, "Partition Contains Open Files" on all
> partitions from D: (MAIN):-P: . And that's after I've already run from DOS
> CHKDSK /p, aswell as CHKDSK /r. I don't know if Error 993 is a real
> problem
> or not.
>
> Okay, well I installed BootMagic on drive 2, and it recognised three
> bootable partitions: Win2k/XP and WIN98 on drive 1, and of course
> Win2k/XP
> on drive 2, which is the one I'm working from. I've enabled BootMagic and
> when I rebooted, the two bootable partitions were indicated by BootMagic
> as
> "Unavailable". I'm using "Advanced Partition Hiding BTW with BootMagic
> because I have 2 disks.
>
> Okay, what can I do to get the MAIN partition bootable again? I seem to
> have tried everything, rescue disks, but nothing. All the files are still
> there on disk 1, it looks like there are no errors, but it just wont
> boot.
> Is it to do with open files, or is it something gone wrong with the
> BootMagic program that was enabled on disk 1?
>
> Thanks if you can help. Rich.
>
>
>
.
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