Partition Magic merge error! Please help.

[archagon]

Here's the situation. A while back, I had both Windows ME and Windows
98 installed on different partitions on drive C: W98 was the first
partition but WME was the active one. Later, I upgraded WME to WXP and
forgot about W98.

However, a few days ago, I remembered my old partition and decided to
get my 20GB back. So I opened up PartitionMagic, formatted the W98
partition, and merged the partitions together.

Now WXP won't boot. No error message, no nothing - it just stops
before it gets to the loading screen. All my files are intact.
However, when I run SYS.COM, it gives me some crap about how it
"cannot find the system file in the standard locations" and when I
look in Partition Magic it says the drive is past the 1024 cylinder
boundry or something. I read somewhere that XP is partition and drive
sensitive. Is there any way to fix this short of preforming a backup
of my files and reinstalling Windows?

Thanks in advance!

 

[neil]

You could re-install windows and there is no reason why you would have to
install any other programs, you need to carry out a repair install. But
before you do that you may be able to recover from booting with the XP CD
and enter the repair console, once you are at the prompt enter FIXBOOT /? to
check the useage and use the command. That should cure the problem, failing
that try the FIXMBR /? before carrying out the re-install.

Neil

 

[archagon]

You could re-install windows and there is no reason why you would have to
install any other programs, you need to carry out a repair install. But
before you do that you may be able to recover from booting with the XP CD
and enter the repair console, once you are at the prompt enter FIXBOOT /? to
check the useage and use the command. That should cure the problem, failing
that try the FIXMBR /? before carrying out the re-install.

Neil

Nevermind, I got it. Booted from my XP CD and did a repair install
through the installation.

Thanks anyways!