longhorn
December 26th, 2005, 10:28 PM
Long story. I'll try to keep it to just the facts.
So I had 2k on my hard drive. I split the 120 G partition into 2 equal parts. Then I installed 2k (again) on the second partition. My goal was to do a fresh install of 2k, copy important files to the 2nd installation/partition, then delete the first partition/installation, and finish up by expanding the partition back to it's original 120G size. Okay? Now everything went smooth up until the last part when I was expanding the partition back to 120G. By the way I was using Partition Magic 8. So I select the option to use all the space on the drive. I take a look at what the new table is going to look like and I notice that there is around 7mb of unused space that is not assigned to any partition. I stretch the partition so that that 7mb is included in the partition. I got a warning message that the partition extended past the 1024 mark and if i continued the disk might not be bootable. Well, believe it or not I continued. I have a bad feeling I extended my partition right over the boot sector. Is that even possible? Either way my system won't boot. I'm getting the old "INVALID SYSTEM DISK. INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" message. I could really use some advice.
So I had 2k on my hard drive. I split the 120 G partition into 2 equal parts. Then I installed 2k (again) on the second partition. My goal was to do a fresh install of 2k, copy important files to the 2nd installation/partition, then delete the first partition/installation, and finish up by expanding the partition back to it's original 120G size. Okay? Now everything went smooth up until the last part when I was expanding the partition back to 120G. By the way I was using Partition Magic 8. So I select the option to use all the space on the drive. I take a look at what the new table is going to look like and I notice that there is around 7mb of unused space that is not assigned to any partition. I stretch the partition so that that 7mb is included in the partition. I got a warning message that the partition extended past the 1024 mark and if i continued the disk might not be bootable. Well, believe it or not I continued. I have a bad feeling I extended my partition right over the boot sector. Is that even possible? Either way my system won't boot. I'm getting the old "INVALID SYSTEM DISK. INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" message. I could really use some advice.