Deleting 1 of 3 Partitions
Hello,
I have to ask here because I haven´t found an answer in the net for my following problem:
I use three partitions of XP. Now I wanted to delete the thirst of the three partitions.
I tried to delete the first partition but after rebooting I get errors, one is with activated OS Selector which tells me the boot partition is missing. If I deactivate OS Selector I get the error-message hal.dll is missing.
After I restore first partition everything works fine again.
Please let me know the steps I have tot do to delete first partition and can work on with my left two partitions.
Regards
Michael
If this program functioned as it should - you would be able to boot from your boot CD, and fix OSS. This is a perfect example of how ridiculous it is not having that functionality.
Hello John!
Thank you for your comment!
Actually this is basic OS and product functionality, so everything's working fine: if you delete Active partition, MBR doesn't know from which drive to boot. That's a common scenario and happens sometimes. Unfortunately we're not responsible for the style of Windows Live CD of fixing the boot records of MBR - that's a question to Microsoft support.
But I think you're right that it would be nice to have an additional feature that would allow a Customer to avoid this inconvenience. I will forward your comment to the Development team, so that they could check how this could be implemented.
Should you have any additional questions or concerns - let us know!
Thank you!
Hello,
a big thanks at first for a nice welcome.
I tried as you told me.
Booted my computer, from OSS I started Disk Director, I use version 10.
Set second partition, which is also like first and third WinXP, to active and deleted the first.
Shut off Disk director and got back to OSS.
OSS shows me now that the Boot partition is missing.
After I got first partition back with DD10 I could boot any of my partition again.
Is it maybe a problem of OSS? Maybe the bootwiz.oss must be changed?
Thank you.