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Partitioning Problem with Partition Magic 7.0

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supesman

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Someone Please HELP!!! I partitioned my current HD which had win98 on it so I can install win 2000. I have a 30 gig so I put 15 gig for each OS. After going through the Partition Magic screens, it rebooted and it didn't reboot into windows, it just freezes doesn't do anything. I booted with the rescue disks and I get an error 105 Partition Table. When i booted with win98 disk, and ran fdisk, i see 1 partition as non-DOS (i believe this is my win 98) and 1 that is NTFS (win2000). I just want to get back to my original config of just win98 can someone please help? THanks.
 
Boot up with your rescue disk. When Partition Magic gives the error, quit to DOS prompt. Restart Partition Magic with the command:

pqmagic /ipe

Now you will be able to see the partitions and edit the bad one. Not sure you will be able to rescue your data, though. Hope you did a backup first.
 
I ran that command and i saw three partitions:

*: NTFS 15006 MB
*: BAD
*: Unformatted 14000 MB

The unformatted was my previous c drive that's where all my stuff is. the NTFS is the new partition that I created but why don't they have drive letters? Shouldn't it be c: instead of *: ? And what do I do with the bad stuff? Should I delete it?
 
had the same thing happen to me. i was repartitioning my hard drive to make the c drive bigger... upon rebooting, things just hung-up and i ended up reformatting the whole thing.
 
No say it's not so! I don't wanna have to format the whole thing. Although I did back up important documents, there were some files that I didn't backup!!! Should I call the company and have them walk me through it?
 
Had a similar prob with 4.0. I ended up rebooting with the win98 disk, doing another setup, repartitioning the whole drive as one, deleting the win 2 k. I will begin trying again soon. You should have a "do not delete files" option during your win98 setup
 
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