Re: findpart/editpart help, please! Ran fixboot from Rec Console on 200G disk
- From: "Rod Speed" <rod_speed@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 08:52:44 +1000
MartyEgan <martyegan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
> Here's how I got where I am:
> System is a few months old HP Pavilion, with a single
> 200Gig SATA drive. It came from the store with 2 partitions
> - a "Recovery Partition" of about 6 Gig, and another partition
> of about 180Gig where WinXP Home was installed.
What was the story with that service pack wise ?
> I upgraded WinXP Home to WinXP Pro by running an in-place
> upgrade. Applied Service Pack 2. Everything seemed to work fine.
> The system became infected with numerous spyware, etc, and
> I had to clean it up. I used the MS Antispyware. I booted into
> Safe Mode and ran the MS Antispyware scan. The following
> day, my wife said it wasn't working. I wasn't able to boot,
Presumably you could boot after completing the antispywhere scan ?
> with an error - "Windows could not start because of
> an error in the software. Please report this problem
> as : load needed DLLs for kernel. Please contact
> your support person to report this problem.".
> I booted into BartPE (built with from a SP2-slipstreamed WinXP Pro
> disk amd UBCD from ubcd4win.com), and wanted to see the event
> logs, so I looked for them in %systemroot%\system32\config where
> they are normally. They weren't there. This seemed quite odd to me.
> However, most everything else looked normal - including that my
> personal data files were where I expected them to be.
> Booted with my original "non-slipstreamed" Windows XP
> Pro CD, loading the SATA drivers by pressing F6 during
> startup of the CD. I tried to do a repair, but was not allowed.
> The only thing I could do was format the partition where
> "C:" was, because it was labeled with "(Unknown)".
So its likely it was corrupt by then, before you had written to it.
> I then booted into the Recovery Console using the
> same CD, and ran "fixboot", hoping to fix the partition.
> (Duh! I didn't know about the 48-bit LBA issues then.
> I suspect that the 48-bit LBA issues are why it was
> labeled "(Unknown)", right?)
Not likely, as long as you havent written to the drive without
48-bit LBA support, it shouldnt have produced that.
> Afterwards, the 180Gig volume appears to be only 10Meg, and FAT12
> instead of ~180Gig an NTFS. The directory listing on the drive (using
> BartPE again) shows a bunch of odd characters, but no files of mine.
> I tried looking at it with Partition Magic 8, but that wasn't helpful.
> I haven't modified the drive since the goof with "fixboot".
> Here's what I've done so far using findpart. I'm not sure where to
> go from here. I've tried to delete the incorrect partition table entries
> (see output below), but it appears not to be working. What am I
> doing wrong? What should I do? Any help sincerely appreciated!
I'd run the hard drive manufacturer's diagnostic
on the drive to see if the drive is just dying.
Check the SMART data with Everest too.
.
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