XP won't start up

[Roger Neilson]

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

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

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

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Roger Neilson]

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

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

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

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