XP won't start up

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I has a partitioned drive C: and E: and using Partition Magic I have merged
the two together. This threw up no problems, but when it rebooted after the
merge it is now reporting searching for boot record from IDE-0... Ok and
then just hanging. I cannot get to any command prompts at all.

Any ideas?

Am I looking at a reformat and reinstall?

Roger

 

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Hi Roger,

Boot the WinXP CD, load the Recovery Console. From the command prompt, run
fixboot.

HOW TO: Install and Use the Recovery Console in Windows XP [Q307654]
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307654

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Roger Neilson" <didactylos@bignospamfoot.com> wrote in message
news:413783d4$0$49186$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...
>I has a partitioned drive C: and E: and using Partition Magic I have merged
> the two together. This threw up no problems, but when it rebooted after
> the
> merge it is now reporting searching for boot record from IDE-0... Ok and
> then just hanging. I cannot get to any command prompts at all.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Am I looking at a reformat and reinstall?
>
> Roger
>
>

 

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Thanks, that didn't work, but as its a computer I am selling I have
reformatted both drives anyway to get rid of all data and will do a clean
reinstall of Windows.

Cheers

Roger
"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:OggP5dVkEHA.3432@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> Hi Roger,
>
> Boot the WinXP CD, load the Recovery Console. From the command prompt, run
> fixboot.
>
> HOW TO: Install and Use the Recovery Console in Windows XP [Q307654]
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307654
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
> www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "Roger Neilson" <didactylos@bignospamfoot.com> wrote in message
> news:413783d4$0$49186$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...
> >I has a partitioned drive C: and E: and using Partition Magic I have
merged
> > the two together. This threw up no problems, but when it rebooted after
> > the
> > merge it is now reporting searching for boot record from IDE-0... Ok and
> > then just hanging. I cannot get to any command prompts at all.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Am I looking at a reformat and reinstall?
> >
> > Roger
> >
> >
>
>