I think partition magic just killed my drive :(

[aphex]

Luckily i backed up the most impt stuff a few hours ago...

Merged D partition into C, rebooted, and now BSOD... Cant even get to safe mode

Thanks PM8!!

 

[Pepsi90919]

You're welcome!!

 

[Twista]

Arconis got me like that the other day =( no backups and lost all my OS ish =( Courppted the fu ck outta the drive were i had to remove the drive and put into a pc equipped with a floppy drive just to low level format it =(

 

[Drakkon]

back as a freshman in college my prof always tried to convince us that "it is never the fault of the software, only the fault of the user doing something they aren't supposed to that causes problems"



...i never beleived her but just saying

 

[neonerd]

Originally posted by: Drakkon

guess I'm not the only one who misread PM8

 

[Goosemaster]

ouch.


Which version?

 

[Drakkon]

Originally posted by: neonerd

Originally posted by: Drakkon

guess I'm not the only one who misread PM8

lol yeah damn 700m and this small screes...8's and S's look too much alike

 

[aphex]

8.0

Dunno what i did, it crashed halfway through merging the partitions, gave me an error code 9, said could not complete then rebooted.

 

[aphex]

just found this (based off the error code im getting)

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/docu.../XP/all/reskit/en-us/prmd_stp_swhw.asp

 

[tm37]

It's magic like that

 

[aphex]

well im trying to repaid my xp install.....

upon reboot it finally ran chkdsk now its deleting the sh!t outta my C drive.... grrrrr

 

[monzi]

Try to boot into recovery console, and "fixmbr" I think, I usually run all the "fix" commands, and it works, ROFL

-Monzi

 

[ajayjuneja]

and hence, I stopped using partition magic!

 

[Epic Fail]

You forgot the magic word: abracadabra.

 

[Shawn]

I'm sure your drive is ok, it's just your data is corrupt.

But yea Partition Magic is garbage.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: aphex
well im trying to repaid my xp install.....

upon reboot it finally ran chkdsk now its deleting the sh!t outta my C drive.... grrrrr

lol..I knew I forgot to tell you something..NEVER run a chkdsk after somethign like that until all your partitions are active

Originally posted by: Shawn
I'm sure your drive is ok, it's just your data is corrupt.

But yea Partition Magic is garbage.

No it isn't

 

[BrokenVisage]

Same thing happened at my job on Friday, was merging partitions and needed to adjust cluster sizes to make it work right.. didn't kill the drive but a windows reinstall was needed, so damn long and ruined my day.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: monzi
Try to boot into recovery console, and "fixmbr" I think, I usually run all the "fix" commands, and it works, ROFL

-Monzi

wouldnt even let me into recovery console, as soon as it asked which windows install to try it restarts.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
Same thing happened at my job on Friday, was merging partitions and needed to adjust cluster sizes to make it work right.. didn't kill the drive but a windows reinstall was needed, so damn long and ruined my day.

was all the other data still there?

 

[Vic]

Happened to me once w/PM. Turned out the MFT had been corrupted.

Insert Windows CD and boot into recovery console, logon as Administrator, run fixmbr, fixboot, and chkdsk. Solved the problem for me.

edit: nm, saw your post at the same time as mine. Sorry to hear.

 

[cavemanmoron]

use a floppy boot into each partition, scandisk.each.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: cavemanmoron
use a floppy boot into each partition, scandisk.each.

i havent had a floppy drive in 2-3 years...

 

[aphex]

OK OK, i NEED HELP!?!!??!

While reinstalling XP, i got this error when it started to install Start Menu items...

"copy error, cannot find IEXLPORE.EX_"

It let me browse my drive to find it, and what do ya know, EVERYTHING is still there....

At this point, what can i do to rescue everything?

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: aphex
OK OK, i NEED HELP!?!!??!

While reinstalling XP, i got this error when it started to install Start Menu items...

"copy error, cannot find IEXLPORE.EX_"

It let me browse my drive to find it, and what do ya know, EVERYTHING is still there....

At this point, what can i do to rescue everything?

Dude...jsut use another drive, load windows, mount this other drive, and proceed to get the crap off of there using Getdataback.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: aphex
OK OK, i NEED HELP!?!!??!

While reinstalling XP, i got this error when it started to install Start Menu items...

"copy error, cannot find IEXLPORE.EX_"

It let me browse my drive to find it, and what do ya know, EVERYTHING is still there....

At this point, what can i do to rescue everything?

Dude...jsut use another drive, load windows, mount this other drive, and proceed to get the crap off of there using Getdataback.

Hmmm, may have to buy a new drive...

Drive having the trouble is a 250gb, all i got in the closet is a 10gb and a 6gb