Thought I would be smart and repatition my existing drive and load a second operating system on it. The plan was to run Win ME on 1 partition, and Win Xp on the other.
I used Symantec's "Partition Magic". It loaded fine. It was supposed to use drive space from the existing c: drive and make a new partition for the new operating system. All appeared ok as it told me that it will reboot and make the changes final. That was the last time I saw any life from it.
It rebooted and came up with a empty black screen.
The rescue disk it had me create before it crashed does boot the machine. Then I can run Partition magic again and it can only see the new partition but says it's corrupted and likely will lose data (Error 110)
Symantec gives little or no support for the product.
So, I found "Partition table doctor" through Google . Not sure if I'd be wasting my money. It seems to have mixed reviews if it's any good.
Before buying it I used a Windows startup disk and I was able to do a minimal boot and now I am able to see the drive. No windows, but a
Dos listing.
This tells me the partition is ok, but I lost windows or can't see it.
Anybody have any thoughts what direction I should go. I can just back up the data and move it to a new machine but I would like to go back to yesterday. It was all so comfortable then.
Thanks anyone
I used Symantec's "Partition Magic". It loaded fine. It was supposed to use drive space from the existing c: drive and make a new partition for the new operating system. All appeared ok as it told me that it will reboot and make the changes final. That was the last time I saw any life from it.
It rebooted and came up with a empty black screen.
The rescue disk it had me create before it crashed does boot the machine. Then I can run Partition magic again and it can only see the new partition but says it's corrupted and likely will lose data (Error 110)
Symantec gives little or no support for the product.
So, I found "Partition table doctor" through Google . Not sure if I'd be wasting my money. It seems to have mixed reviews if it's any good.
Before buying it I used a Windows startup disk and I was able to do a minimal boot and now I am able to see the drive. No windows, but a
Dos listing.
This tells me the partition is ok, but I lost windows or can't see it.
Anybody have any thoughts what direction I should go. I can just back up the data and move it to a new machine but I would like to go back to yesterday. It was all so comfortable then.
Thanks anyone