Partitioning Problem with Partition Magic 7.0

[supesman]

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.

 

[Dim]

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.

 

[supesman]

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?

 

[agentK]

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.

 

[supesman]

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?

 

[supesman]

help

 

[sasa]

Try "TestDisk: Partition Recovery" from www.esiea.fr/public_html/Christophe.GRENIER/testdisk.html
It saved my data two times!

 

[Dvorjak]

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

 

[Staver]

Try this link or this one.