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Windows won't start up after using Paragon Partition Manager v9.0 Professional Hi, i have a Toshiba satellite running windows vista home basic 32bit, i was trying to shrink the C drive and i couldn't shrink it less than a certain extent with the windows manager, so i tried using paragon partition manager to resize it, so i selected the drive D to be expanded then the drive C to take the free space from and i applied the changes, it asked me to restart, after restarting a screen of the progress was showing and progress is moving normally untill it finished and restarted by it self, after restarting i got a black screen and it says "windows failed to start, a recent hardware or software might be the cause" and i have two options either to Launch startup repair or start windows normally, i tried both, when i launch startup repair i get on the bottom of the black screen loading files.... then a normal startup logo shows and a get an error message called "system recovery option" and it says the installed program cannot start. Click ok to turn off the computer. :(:( |
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You pushed too hard
Wed, 2008-10-15 06:50 by admin
Vista refused the excessive resize for a reason.
I fear the chances to get this repaired are slim. I wouldn't know how to try. You'll have to go back to your latest backup.
Let this be a warning to others. Resizing partitions is always a risky operation. (I just happened to do it too, after backing up the hard disk.) On Vista, obviously you want to do it with Vista's own tool and never with another program, unless you are perfectly sure that the other program is well compatible with Vista and has functions above Vista's that you urgently need.
Finally solved
Wed, 2008-10-15 23:53 by mmm1st
Hans! finally i solved the problem, as i used to say and I'll keep saying (XP is the best)..
i solved the problem,
First step, what I did is i took the hard disk out from the laptop and i connected to as an external hard to my other laptop which I'm running Windows XP on it, and i have Power Quest Partition Magic on it, when i connected the hard disk at first the D drive was there with all its content and the C drive also was there But when i click on C drive it says drive not formatted properly do you want to format drive? i clicked NO then i opened Power Quest Partition Magic and once it started it detected some errors on the drive and asked if i want it to be fixed, i clicked YES and I got few other errors like this I clicked yes on all of them, after that i disconnected the hard disk and reconnected it and i was able to open the C drive too and everything looked normal in there..
Step two i put the hard disk back to the laptop that i got the problem on the first time, i powered on and i got the Toshiba welcome screen and after that the Error message and vista error fixing thingy, i clicked fix, and it took about 10 to 15 minutes and then it said problem was not fully fixed,, I restarted and the computer it started normally, I went to control panel and removed the Paragon Partition Manager, then i clicked my computer, the D drive was not there, only the C drive, so i had to go to Manage and went to disk management and D drive was there but no drive letter was assigned to it, I deleted the drive and made it as unallocated space, then restarted the computer, and went to manage again and made a new D drive from the unallocated space..
And everything was back to normal...
i know i wrote too much but that is just to explain how the problem was fixed in case anyone has the same problem bcoz i couldn't find anything about a similar problem on the net..
Congratulations!
Thu, 2008-10-16 08:27 by admin
In most similar cases the data would have been lost. Glad you found a way to solve this problem.
This saves you a lot of work. Now you don't have to reinstall everything.
Yes I fear that too, i think
Wed, 2008-10-15 13:06 by mmm1st
Yes I fear that too, i think i have to reformat the whole thing,, adding a stupid move I did which is I didn't make a back up, bcoz when i read on Paragon partition manager on the internet it says that is compatible with Vista! well i think i discovered that it is not the hard way,, let that be a lesson for those who want to try it :)