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I can't access my old partition anymore...any help?

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ManDooM

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I goofed. I have XP home installed on one partition. I installed a new hard drive and wanted to format it so I booted from the XP disk and formatted it, then quit without completely installing Windows, thinking that I could just go in and delete the temp files it put on the new partition. Apparently that doesn't work because I think it wrote something on the boot sector of the main partition that I can't get fixed. It thinks that there is another OS on the other partition and errors out at the selection screen. So I deleted the new partition. Didn't help. I went to the repair console and tried fixboot, and fixmbr but it didn't work. I would appreciate any advice. Thanks!
 
Okay, update... I can access the old partition if I select it fast enough. If I'm not fast enough, I get an error for a missing dll file. I think it's trying to finish installing Windows on the new partition.

So...do I need to fix the boot sector and if so, how? I can get into the old windows so if I need to run a batch file or something it would be simple.

Thanks again!
 
You should be able to fix your boot.ini file. Easiest way might be to open the disk in another machine, or if you're feeling lucky/smart, have a crack with linux livecd that will allow ntfs read/write.
 
Copy the contents here and we'll tell you, but if you can see it it should be obvious.

It will likely be the one with a zero-wait time, that points to the new drive you installed.

Can't remember if boot.ini can be edited within the recovery console - I think it can. Do a 'help' when you boot the console, that would be safest.
 
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