Won't Boot

[Charles Elliott]

I used PartitionMagic to increase the size of the partition on which WinXP
Home was installed. Now the system will not boot from hard disk. As per a
Microsoft Knowledge Base article, I made a boot floppy, and it will boot
from there. Does anyone know how to get it to boot from the C: drive again?
Specifically, if I formatted the C: drive and then copied Ntldr,
NtDetect.com, and boot.ini to it, first before anything else, would it then
boot from C:?

C. Elliott

 

[Plato]

I used PartitionMagic to increase the size of the partition on which WinXP
Home was installed. Now the system will not boot from hard disk. As per a

Curious. Was the system in fat32 and did you make the partition larger
than 132 gigs and is your OS XP original?

Microsoft Knowledge Base article, I made a boot floppy, and it will boot
from there. Does anyone know how to get it to boot from the C: drive again?
Specifically, if I formatted the C: drive and then copied Ntldr,
NtDetect.com, and boot.ini to it, first before anything else, would it then
boot from C:?

Well if you do that your data is "gone". If you do that why not just
install xp fresh?

 

[Guest]

copy the floppy files to the hard drive.