NTFS partition as become RAW

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My friend needs help. He was running Windows 2000 Pro. and bought XP. His disk was partitioned into C and D (for data). He used PowerQuest's PartitionMagic to create a new partition, E, and ran XP setup by booting up from the CD. It complained about some errors found in the new partition and some confusion later and XP is now installed into the new partition.
However, he can no longer boot into Win2k. Under partition magic it does not appear as an NTFS partition anymore and instead appears as RAW. His other data partition is OK. What has happened and/or what can he do to resurrect the "lost" partition?

 

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That history makes me wonder two things about the use of Partition Magic in this case:

1. Was the PM version appropriate for use with Windows XP and NTFS 5.1?

2. Were any of PM's "special features" being used.

I have to say that I'm not knowledgable about PM. Seems like the only experience I've had with it since DOS days is trying to rescue files for people who've used it (perhaps too aggressively). If PM had NOT been involved and this had just been set up using the native Win2K and WinXP partitioning utilities and boot managers, I'd say to just try a couple of repair procedures from the recovery console (fixboot, for instance), but the use of PM really complicates the issue. Sorry I don't know more about PM. I'm only chipping in here because no one else has said anything, and I wanted to warn you against trying the repair options -- at least without doing some careful research. If the PM version is appropriate for use with WinXP, perhaps you should try to use its own repair capabilities???

- Collin