crash while patitionning
Hello,
I have a packard bell laptop with vista and a 450gb HDD with 1 full partition. I wanted to use acronis to make a new partition. So when acronis rebooted my laptop and started resizing the vista partition, all went well until 83%, where my laptop went in sleep mode(maybe a hardware sleep mode commanded by the bios). I couldnt get it to go out of sleep mode so i had to reboot, but now vista wont boot. I tried every tool from the windows recovery system but everything failed.
So, now, i need a solution to rescue all the important data i have on the laptop HDD, before i format everything and create the partitions from scratch, before i reinstall vista. Or maybe there's a better solution? Maybe a trick to repair what has been changed by acronis?
Thanks in advance for the help.

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If you are lucky (big big IF) then your problem is that the BCD can no longer find the booting files.
Have you made a Vista recovery CD? I assume a Windows 7 one would work as well. This is not a TI recovery CD, I do mean Vista.
Should add, if you can find a spare 450 GB or more drive, now would be the time to make a sector by sector backup image before you go any further.
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