partition magic error. Unable to boot pc. HELP!!!

[taterh8r]

I've got a dell dimension pc. I installed partition magic 8.0 and was unable to successfully partition my HD. The next time I restarted my pc after it goes through the windows xp loading page. I get the following message:

PartitionMagic (xmnt2002.exe)
PartitionMagic is unable to read the batch file.
Verify that the System32 directory is not compressed or corrupt.


I've found a few solutions online, but they all require being in windows? I can't get it to boot in safe mode to try the suggestions.

Any ideas? If i use the system restore on the dell pc, do I loose all my saved data?

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: taterh8r
I've got a dell dimension pc.

If i use the system restore on the dell pc, do I loose all my saved data?

yes..I'd pull the drive and slave it to another system and grab stuffz ..then do the dell restore ..if possible... gl

 

[corkyg]

Why not try using the PartitionMagic boot disk?