Won't boot after repartition
Last night I created a new partition on a secondary (non-boot) drive. It said it needed to reboot and I said O.K. From then on just after starting Windows 7 it stops at a black screen that says "Acronis Disk Director Suite... Analyzing partition:... 100%"
Windows 7 tells me to repair. I do that but it says there is an unknown error that it can't fix.
I try to revert my C: from my latest Drive image using my Vista PE boot disk with Drive Image 10 on it but the boot partition is grayed out. I restore the master boot partition but that doesn't help. I wasn't able to find anything with Google.
I have Windows 7 on a home built Quad Core.
Can anyone suggest anything?
Do you need any additional information?
One more thing. The new drive I added on which I created the new partition is 2TB. I tried booting with the drive connected and with it disconnected. The problem occurs both ways.
I was able to get my system to boot again by restoring from an image. I figured out the grayed out partition problem.
I would still like to know how to solve this problem without reverting to an image and perhaps what caused the problem.
Thanks for any info. I ended up doing quite a bit of searching and couldn't find an answer.
It's possible that DD got confused over the drives or it may have had a problem getting itself removed from the booting/startup sequence. It's generally recommended to boot to the DD CD to perform any operations that would require DD to reboot from Windows. This allows you to control it instead of it being run automatically.
Thanks for the reply. I normally do use the CD to avoid rebooting but I didn't expect a reboot for this operation. I guess the lesson is to never say "Yes" when it asks to reboot. I still would feel better if I knew where the flag is that tells the OS to "analyze partitions" for Disk Director.
There isn't any flag. DD hooks into the booting process of Windows so it can do the procedure before Windows locks things up. If the registry entry doesn't get removed, it will run every time. I'm not sure if DD does it exactly the same as DD 11 10, but you can get the general idea from this old forum thread.