Hi Folks, first time posting but have lurked in the past
Preparing my windows xp box for an eventual dual boot I attempted to resize 2 partitions using partition magic,never had trouble before but this time, it did. . . . . .
I resized my C from 50 to 40g, and my E from 440 to 400g - set a new 50gb partition for mint, to be formatted to FAT32.
It appeared to go fine 'til the end when as I was pressing enter to reboot, i noticed an error, unfortunately didn't catch it in full . . . . as the machine restarted up popped a BSOD for a second, (can't catch it hitting pause) then it rolls onto the options screen but booting normally doesn't work or last good config or anything else ...
Inserting the win cd, the repair option doesn't even appear and my C drive is called unknown1 ...... the E drive is recognised and the sizes haven't changed, so the Linux partition I was trying to create didn't happen - If I plug in in a Mint USB, the C & E drive contents appear fine and all there, I just can't boot.
If i select with the win disc, either drive, it tells me C is formatted with an incompatible file system, which is bizarre considering i'd only tried to shrink it by 10g, i didn't touch the File System . . . . a linux mint live USB/gparted tells me its NTFS, why windows can't recognise its own file system is beyond me?
I cannot get a Command prompt at all . . .
checking this with mint, the 10gb i was trying to shave off the C drive is showing as unsused space, so maybe this is a partition magic fubar, same goes for the E drive but that's still recognised as NTFS.....
Long shot. . . . . . . . but . . . could i not transfer all the C drive files over to my 1tb external, format C to NTFS, transfer them back . . . . ??
Is this even do-able/possible before anything else ?
Sorry for the lengthy post but I was up late last night with this so trying to include every step I tried at the time.
Thanks in advance for any pointers . . . . . . Dave
Preparing my windows xp box for an eventual dual boot I attempted to resize 2 partitions using partition magic,never had trouble before but this time, it did. . . . . .
I resized my C from 50 to 40g, and my E from 440 to 400g - set a new 50gb partition for mint, to be formatted to FAT32.
It appeared to go fine 'til the end when as I was pressing enter to reboot, i noticed an error, unfortunately didn't catch it in full . . . . as the machine restarted up popped a BSOD for a second, (can't catch it hitting pause) then it rolls onto the options screen but booting normally doesn't work or last good config or anything else ...
Inserting the win cd, the repair option doesn't even appear and my C drive is called unknown1 ...... the E drive is recognised and the sizes haven't changed, so the Linux partition I was trying to create didn't happen - If I plug in in a Mint USB, the C & E drive contents appear fine and all there, I just can't boot.
If i select with the win disc, either drive, it tells me C is formatted with an incompatible file system, which is bizarre considering i'd only tried to shrink it by 10g, i didn't touch the File System . . . . a linux mint live USB/gparted tells me its NTFS, why windows can't recognise its own file system is beyond me?
I cannot get a Command prompt at all . . .
checking this with mint, the 10gb i was trying to shave off the C drive is showing as unsused space, so maybe this is a partition magic fubar, same goes for the E drive but that's still recognised as NTFS.....
Long shot. . . . . . . . but . . . could i not transfer all the C drive files over to my 1tb external, format C to NTFS, transfer them back . . . . ??
Is this even do-able/possible before anything else ?
Sorry for the lengthy post but I was up late last night with this so trying to include every step I tried at the time.
Thanks in advance for any pointers . . . . . . Dave