jeannie Posted August 1, 2004 Report Share Posted August 1, 2004 I was running XP Home and installed Drive Image. Running that program I selected to create a Disk Recovery Manager partition on my C drive. After the program created this partition the computer rebooted but Windows couldnt load. I cant read the drive at the command prompt and transferring the drive (as a slave) to another computer shows it as not accessible. Im a novice at this so following advice from a friend I have tried to remedy the problem with Partition Magic but was not successful.Any suggestions or pointers as to where to look would be gratefully received. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted August 1, 2004 Report Share Posted August 1, 2004 Welcome to the forum. Someone will no doubt sort things for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted August 1, 2004 Report Share Posted August 1, 2004 I was running XP Home and installed Drive Image. Running that program I selected to create a Disk Recovery Manager partition on my C drive. After the program created this partition the computer rebooted but Windows couldnt load. I cant read the drive at the command prompt and transferring the drive (as a slave) to another computer shows it as not accessible. Im a novice at this so following advice from a friend I have tried to remedy the problem with Partition Magic but was not successful.Any suggestions or pointers as to where to look would be gratefully received. :(Drive Image cannot create partitions as far as i know, so are you using drive image or some other program? Or do you mean Partition Magic?If you cannot gain access to the drive with a command prompt you've probably zapped the partition. If It ain't there no more and all data has gone :(I cant read the drive at the command prompt and transferring the drive (as a slave) to another computer shows it as not accessible. Im a novice at this so following advice from a friend I haveIn what way, meesage on screen or you have nothing to access? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moon Posted August 1, 2004 Report Share Posted August 1, 2004 You can create a 'backup location' with Drive Image, which I assume means a partition. You can also create rescue diskettes, which seems like a good idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulcoup Posted August 2, 2004 Report Share Posted August 2, 2004 Creating a disk recovery partition on the same HDD is probably not a good idea, as if the HDD fails, the chance of getting the data back yourself is slim.You'd be better off saving your data to another drive (as in a type of RAID setup), or to CD (or DVD now).I have never used Drive Image, so I write with much ignorance. But do you know what type of partition you created? (With Partition Magic you have the option to create partitions for other operating systems).Windows XP still needs a MBR (master boot record) - otherwise it simply won't boot.Did you try booting up your PC when pressing the F8 button? You then have an option of booting the PC from It's last known working install.Of course the most drastic option is to reinstall from your XP CD...Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted August 2, 2004 Report Share Posted August 2, 2004 Try booting from your xp CD and going to repair console and type, 'fixmbr' and 'fixboot'Might wipe out your newly created partition, but should work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeannie Posted August 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2004 Try booting from your xp CD and going to repair console and type, 'fixmbr' and 'fixboot'Might wipe out your newly created partition, but should work.Sounds promising Scarecrow but booting up with XP disk and selecting Repair just results in a command prompt. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted August 2, 2004 Report Share Posted August 2, 2004 Right, from the command prompt type 'fixmbr' and 'fixboot' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeannie Posted August 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2004 Tried that but no difference. Computer boots to a screen which allows different windows options (normal, safe, etc). Whatever option is chosen it ends up back at that screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted August 2, 2004 Report Share Posted August 2, 2004 Which version of DI are you using , DI7?if so boot with the disk in your cdrom, and see if that gives you the option to restore an image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeannie Posted August 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2004 I hadn't got round to creating an image as the option to create a parttiion on the c: drive seemed the obvious option to carry out first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted August 2, 2004 Report Share Posted August 2, 2004 Do you have the partition magic or bootmagic floppies ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeannie Posted August 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 Do you have the partition magic or bootmagic floppies ?Sorry, I don't see how this will help.I have established that the files are present on the C drive and could copy the important ones to my new drive but reinstalling all my apps and settings could take days so if there is any way to make the drive bootable would by a great boon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 I'm thinking possibly DI has made the Disk Recovery Manager partition active therefore making your boot partition inactive, P/magic may enable you to set your original boot partition active Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 You can also boot from a windows98 boot disk, and type fdisk.Find out which partition is the main one, (usually C:) and set it to active. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeannie Posted August 4, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2004 I've checked and the main partition is active. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted August 4, 2004 Report Share Posted August 4, 2004 I've checked and the main partition is active.In that case, it was the software (Drive Image as you say) that has caused the problems. You need to use the recovery disks (which I know you made......... right?) If not, there isn't much you can do besides format?Try going to Drive Image's website and contacting them about what happened. They may have a solution for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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