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Ok, I went to install Vista RC1, but first I had to repartition my hard drive. I opened up Partition Magic 8 and resized my only partition on the drive from 310GB to 250GB, and I told it to complete the operation. It reminded me that I should back up (naturally) all data on the drive just in case, but I've never had any problems and I don't really have anywhere to backup to. It also reminded me to create Rescue Diskettes, but I don't have a floppy drive so I couldn't anyway. I told it to complete the operation, it shut down and started into it's little app. at 99%, it decided to pop up with an error. I restarted the computer, and as soon as the windows logo popped up it Blue Screen'd and restarted. This repeats every time the logo shows, and I can't get into windows.
So yeah, I'm hoping to recover the partition, as I suspect that it's pretty screwed up. I first tried one of my boot cd's that had partition magic on it (friend created it for me, he programs and it works pretty well) and I got an error... Then I integrated Partition Magic (from my other computer, which I'm writing this on) into UBCD, and I got a similar error. Then I tried a burnt copy of my friend's PM8 (I lost my disc long ago...) and I got a "1. FD 1.44MB System Type-(06)" message after the "Boot CD:" message, and it hangs (blinking _, but my keyboard won't input anything (like 1)).
So yeah, I'm sorry if this isn't in the right place, but does anyone have any ideas as to how this could be recovered from? I'd like to at least recover my data...
I've got an SATA Drive if that helps (I suspect for no good reason that that's why I'm getting the error I am when I try my two custom boot cd's.)
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