messed up partitions

[stringcheeseincident]

i have an 80gb western digital special edition harddrive. i had about 30gb taken up and i wanted to add a 2nd partition, e:, which would be another 30gb. i used partition magic 8 to create a partition, and restarted to see if itd work. it booted fine and went into the partition magic screen where it said it was resizing the c: partition. it froze at about 10% complete so i restarted. now, after the windows xp home boot screen appears, the computer reboots. i cant get into windows through safe mode or anything.

what did i do wrong? is there anyway i can recover my files and actually boot into windows? help is appreciated!

 

[Abhi]

Lol ...

I am laughing because the EXACT same thing happened to me 24 hours ago. I dont know why I am stupid enough to trust Partition Magic...

Anyway... heres how i fixed mine...

Boot using the XP CD...
Press R to get into recovery mode...
type chkdsk and wait (it takes a lil time)... it ll find and repair errors...
Reboot ...

You should be fixed... at least i was...
And i didnt try chkdsk /r ..... plain chkdsk worked for me...

 

[stringcheeseincident]

worked like a CHARM, thanks a bunch man!

 

[Abhi]

Netime...