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urgent!!! primary partition "gone"

  • 29-11-2005 8:51pm
    #1
    subway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,131 ✭✭✭


    ehh,
    well not so much gone as switched from primary to logical,
    windows now wont boot,
    error message is
    "boot failure
    reboot and select proper boot device"

    i was reassigning some space after an os uninstall which was meant to give me more room for some new progs on c:
    i used partition magic for this,
    and hilariously have no resuce discs created ....

    anyone know a program that can allow me to change a partition from logical/non-active to primary/active,
    without reinstalling xp :)

    i have access to the web via this pc for downloadbles but have no floppy drive on the other machine as its a laptop.
    help much appreciatesd.......


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  • #2
    Karoma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    *shrug*
    make a bootable "DOS Emulator" CD (Nero,et al. should help) and put the command line version of Partition Magic (pqmagict) on to it.. Penguin. See if it can be undone? Penguin.


  • #3
    subway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,131 ✭✭✭subway


    seems im going round in circles.
    partition became logical -
    now its primary and active.
    so that should be fine
    disc isnt set bootable and for some reason i cant find that option in any of the tools im trying.

    undo didnt work and im useless at linux,
    tried a knoppix dsl disc and i just looked at it for a while before going back to a bootable win 98 usb drive....

    need to make bootable....
    the partition table is intact and i can copy and move files to my hearts content, just no boot up...


  • #4
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,597 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    on the Knoppix disk there is a util called gpart - it "guesses" partitions

    read the help fully and make a backup of the partition table first.

    I have no idea if fixmbr / fixboot would work after partition tragic

    or try the XP boot disk - copying boot.ini ntldr and ntdetect.com to a floppy formateed in an XP machine (if using SATA or SCSI it might not work )


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