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Fireplace · 01-02-2007, 21:08

I purchased an external hard drive recently to back up my personal data. My current internal drive has a partition that I created with PartionMagic when I bought the pc some years ago.

Now I have moved the data from the partition to the external drive I decided to merge the partition back into the rest of the c: drive , again using Partition Magic.

Followed all the prompts and it began to merge after a re-start. It said it may take some time, so I went away and had dinner.

On returning to have a look, shock!!! BSOD. Now it won't boot into Windows XP or Safe Mode or any other of the options that are available.

Any suggestions, as there are no options to just get a command prompt. My most precious data is on the external drive, but all my emails, addresses etc are stranded on the inaccessible drive. I also don't have an XP disc as the rescue stuff is in another partition of the same drive.

Help...........please..........

01-02-2007, 21:08	#1
Fireplace Inactive Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Warrington Age: 54 Services: 20mb BB SACM, XL package - V+ & Pace 4000, Telephone. Posts: 92	Help..Hard Drive failure I purchased an external hard drive recently to back up my personal data. My current internal drive has a partition that I created with PartionMagic when I bought the pc some years ago. Now I have moved the data from the partition to the external drive I decided to merge the partition back into the rest of the c: drive , again using Partition Magic. Followed all the prompts and it began to merge after a re-start. It said it may take some time, so I went away and had dinner. On returning to have a look, shock!!! BSOD. Now it won't boot into Windows XP or Safe Mode or any other of the options that are available. Any suggestions, as there are no options to just get a command prompt. My most precious data is on the external drive, but all my emails, addresses etc are stranded on the inaccessible drive. I also don't have an XP disc as the rescue stuff is in another partition of the same drive. Help...........please..........