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PartitionMagic Lock Up...Need Help

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kdsudac

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So this morning, I decided to give partition magic a try, and I guess I may have gotten in over my head. Everything went fine with the partitioning, and I was copying files over this evening when the power went out. I am now locked out of my hard drive. Windows starts to boot up then gives me a blue screen and quickly automatically restarts. I run partition magic from resuce discs and I get a bunch of error messages. Particularly noteworthy are "Error 1516 Partition improperly dismounted" (link) and "Error 1513 Bad attribute position in file record."(link) .

I don't know what to do. Tech Supports solution is to run chkdsk, but I can't do this since I'm locked out of windows. When I boot from a floppy, it doesn't even recognize the c: drive. ... any suggestions??

Thanks
 
More information:

The Windows blue screen tells me:

STOP: c0000218 {Registry File Failure}
The registry cannot load the hive {file}:
\SystemRoot\System32\Config\Software
or its log or alternate
It is corrupt, absent or not writeable.
 
Continuing my one-man conversation:

I used Knoppix, which is a bootable linux distribution. I am able to boot in and access my 2nd physical harddrive, but I can't access any of the partitions on the 1st physical harddrive. The partitions show up, but I can't mount them.

Anyone know of any bootable way to correct a file system or to try to fix a partition gone bad?
 
Sorry to hear it. PartitionTragic strikes again. I'd bite it and fdisk, format, but that's just me. Good luck. Peace.
 
Ouch. Sorry to hear that, but it doesn't sound good.

The only thing I can recommend is to invest in a good UPS so that something like this doesn't happen again in the future. Good luck.
 
The sad thing is that I have a UPS, but I'm living at my current location for only a month.... so I left it packed up. Oh well. I used some bootable program called ZARNTFS and it was able to identify most of the stuff on the harddrive.

Unfortunately, the one thing that I really really wanted was a copy of my Eudora inbox. This was one of the few things it wasn't able to salvage (but it could get the outbox). Must have been a corrupted file or something. Oh well, I'm going to try a bunch of other things with the hope that I can recover it. If not, I'll live without my old emails.

 
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