[OFB Cafe] Fixing Messed Up Partitions

[Timothy Butler]

Thanks, Don. I gave a bunch of these a try, but it seems Partition  
Magic did a very good job mangling the system. Alas.

I'll save them for future reference, however!

	-Tim

On Aug 7, 2009, at 7:16 PM, Don Spoon wrote:

> Got this info from Google:  ("Missing NTLDR" )
>
> 1.  Pretty straightforward approach at:  http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000465.htm
> 2.  Pretty convoluted approach at:  http://tinyempire.com/notes/ntldrismissing.htm
> 3.  Microsoft says:  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315261/
>
> Take your pick...
>
> -Don Spoon-
>
>
> Timothy Butler wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>    I'm trying to manipulate a drive that has a rather...  
>> interesting... partition structure that includes Windows XP as the  
>> primary OS. When I used Partition Magic, which was on the computer,  
>> to resize and move the Windows partition, it quit booting. Any  
>> ideas how I might fix that? The data looks OK, but right now I get  
>> an error "NTLDR is missing."
>>
>>    Incidentally, so is the XP rescue disc.
>>
>>    Any uberguru wisdom anyone could pass on to me?
>>
>>    Thanks,
>>        Tim
>>
>>
>>
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