Partitions Gone Missing

mickger

I had to re-install Win Xp on my Main partition but since i've done that i've no access to my other 2 partitions. On start up it just boots into the the newly installed partition. Before at start up i had the option to boot into whatever one i wanted. Any ideas???

irishgeo

what was on the other two partitions?

Windows XP has most lightly overwritten the bootsector of your hard disk with its own bootsector meaning what ever was on is still there but cant be accessed by the boot loader.

neokenzo

Have you tried looking in your Disk Management?

ando

if you can still access the other partitions from within xp, then you should only have to edit the boot.ini file to access the other OS's

jabberwock

your boot.ini should look something like this assuming you have other windows oOS' on the other partitions

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition2)\WINDOWS="whatever OS" /fastdetect  [SIZE=1][i]{this is on the master in second partition}[/i][/SIZE] 
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition3)\WINDOWS="whatever OS" /fastdetect  [SIZE=1][i]{this is on the master in third partition}[/i][/SIZE] 

hope it helps!

mickger

Thank guys will try that and see how i get on.