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Help! Partition Magic 8 caused stop error in Win 2000; can't boot

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In my haste to find a solution to the large drive recognition problem I posted about in another thread, I ran Partition Magic 8 to resize my boot partition from 200 gb to 136 gb. I changed only that one thing. Now the system won't boot up and through Google I see there have been other complaints about PM8 frying NTFS drives.

The system dies on a blue screen stop error 0x7b. I tried pressing spacebar during the boot sequence and typing L to get the last working configuration, but that didn't help.

Unlike the secondary drive I was trying to fix in the other post, this boot drive does have some recent data that I really need to recover. Any suggestions?

--Bob
 
Try putting it in another computer and get the data off of it.

Next time, keep a backup.
 
try booting off of the win2k cd, entering the repair console, and running a "fixboot" and or a "fixmbr" (and then run a chkdsk while you're in there)
 
Thanks, seanmcd. I did boot from CD, but I'm not sure I saw a repair console option -- just a suggestion to let setup reformat the disk. Do I need to do something to force the option?
 
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