Just put this up about 15 minutes ago.
Hmmmmm- twice in one day I read about Partition magic borking a hard drive!?!? That's very interesting- and to think people actually PAY for that program. Thankfully qtparted is free!![]()
Hi All,
I have a laptop with a 40Gb (NTFS) hard disk running WinXP Pro. I run Partition Magic 7. I setup the following procedure.
1. Resize partition to 20Gb
2. Create a LinuxSwap partition of 256Mb
3. Create a Ext2 (3 wasn't avaliable) out of the remaining space.
I rebooted and it started the procedure in dos. Part of the way though it reported an error (112 i think) which was a bad sector. I press a key to restart and now all I get is the command prompt for me to select either "start windows normally", "safe mode" or "Last known good configuration". All of which cause the machine to restart and I am presented with the options again.
I have booted of my Knoppix CD and can still see my data on the harddisk. I am at work tomorrow and will try copying data though Knoppix to the server but I am not hopeful.
Can anyone please advice me on what I can do. Also, I really need an idiots guide on creating the partitions using Knoppix's partition program so that if the data is transferred I can build the partitions and dual boot Knoppix (2 partitions totaling 20Gb) and WinXP (the other 20Gb).
Please help!
Many Thanks
Chris
Just put this up about 15 minutes ago.
Hmmmmm- twice in one day I read about Partition magic borking a hard drive!?!? That's very interesting- and to think people actually PAY for that program. Thankfully qtparted is free!![]()
I had a similar problem the first time I tried to use partition magic for my xp pro laptop and know of a couple of people too. its begining to sound like a pattern to me. This is what I did:
I first booted with a floppy disk with harddisk recovery program on it, then run a chdisk and found out that all my files are intact. From there, I tried booting from an xp pro cd and that got me to some form of system recovery program which requested for administrators password. Now this is the bizare part, I ditched the process and restarted my computer, then partition magic asked to proceed, I said no and got my computer life back.
I don't know if this will be helpful but I hope it can give you an idea where to start.
Best
You could try gpart it is on knoppix. Open a terminal and type it in. A google search will find several pages of info. Should be worth a try. Jimmy![]()
Papasi,
That sounds like the easiest way to go. I can boot of the Knoppix CD and see that all my files are still intact. I'm off to hunt for a XP cd now.
ATOB
p.s. Hard Drive size seems a little small though .... hmmmm
Just hard to repartition and format the drive. All my data lost![]()
ATOB
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