XP won't boot after adjusting drive sizes

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I have an HP mini running Windows XP.

I purchased Disk Director 10 yesterday, and made my hard drive (F:\) considerably larger in order to get updates and install new programs. This was at the expense of my data drive (P:\) which was relativley empty.

I went through the checklist and did the checkered flag to reboot the system.

There now seems to be a conflict of start up drives, as the computer starts loading XP, gets to the blue page with the "Windows XP" logo and four coloured Microsoft box, but it hangs there. I left it for ages to see if it was just slow, but no luck

From reading the other posts, I think that Disk Director has renamed the drive F:\ into C:\ and the computer doesn't know from where to load up (I'm guessing here).

How do I recover from this and get XP to boot up, with all my old settings but newly partitionned drive?

Many thanks

Graeme

Sun, 05/02/2010 - 03:16
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This operation should be done running DD off bootable media, not from under Windows. Do you have a bootable CD? You can download the ISO image file from your account if you haven't made the bootable media. Then you can tell what the assigned drive letter is.

Here is a thread where someone was helped when they changed the boot drive letter from E: to C:, perhaps it may help you. But you have to have some way (BartPE, WinPE, Vista DVD) to run regedit from bootable media:

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/9583

Maybe this will help. Hopefully MudCrab will respond.

Sun, 05/02/2010 - 03:52
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Was the original XP partition (the booting partition) assigned F: when booted into XP? If so, you will need to fix it, as Gary has suggested.

DD wouldn't have made the drive letter changes. That happens when Windows detects changes. If more than one partition has changed, it can cause problems if one of them is the Windows partition.

Sun, 05/02/2010 - 03:58