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Messed up PC with Partition Magic

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  • 03-01-2004 9:27pm
    #1
    Dampsquid
    Registered Users Posts: 681 ✭✭✭


    I had win 98 on the C: Drive, and Windows 2000 Fat32 on the D: Drive.
    I used Partition Magic to delete the C: drive partition, and i extended the windows 2000 partition over the free space of the deleted C: drive. I then made this an Active partition, and I also changed it from a logical drive to a primary partition.

    The problem is that Windows 2000 won't boot now.
    First it was giving an error "Invalid System Disk". I messed about with it a little, by booting from floppy, then running "sys c:" which now makes the windows 2000 partition bootable, but obviously only for win9x.

    How can i make windows 2000 boot up?


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    #2
    OfflerCrocGod
    Registered Users Posts: 6,317 ✭✭✭OfflerCrocGod


    Try using the recovery console and fixing the MBR(Master Boot Record), you can get this by using dos -> /fixmbr(?) I think is the cmd or using repair option in the Win2k install CD options.


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    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,793 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    So NT was on the second partition and now it's on the first one.

    If you are getting a missing file error (HAL ?) then you should edit the BOOT.INI file

    multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)


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    bricks
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    ntdetect.com
    ntldr
    boot.ini
    You'll also need to edit the boot.ini file to point at the first partition as stated earlier.
    But since the boot sector is probably not an NT/2k one you'll need to fix that also.
    You can do this by booting from the win2k install CD [Make sure you hit a key to boot from CD]
    Hit 'R' for repair then hit manual repair.
    You should be able to follow the instructions from here.
    You'll need to re-apply service pack 4 and also all the Post SP4 security fixes after this.


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    Tivoli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,008 ✭✭✭Tivoli


    ntdetect.com
    ntldr
    boot.ini

    my guess is these were all on the c drive that you blanked

    win2k was on the d drive, so even if you get it to boot it won't let you login unless its still on the d drive. unless you ran sysprep before you started this?

    if all fails plug the hard drive into a mates pc, copy all the important stuff and format it (ntfs if you can), plug it back into your pc and boot from your win2k cd


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    Dampsquid
    Registered Users Posts: 681 ✭✭✭Dampsquid


    I managed to fix it.
    I ran the CD and choose repair, did a manual repair. Which allowed me to boot up windows 2000. As it was now on the C Drive, it wouldn't allow me to log in. So i did a search on support.microsoft.com, and they gave 5 ways to try and fix it. The first one i tried didn't work (run fdisk /mbr). The second option was to create another D: partition, which luckily i had unpartitioned space, and create a winnt\system32 file structure on it, and copy the file userinit.exe to it. Tried that and it work.

    So when I got into Win2k, i edited the registry to fix the problem, and put windows 2000 back on the D: drive.

    Oh, i did actually copy ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini off the C: drive before i wiped it. It was te boot sector that was gone.


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