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    Big Problems after Partitioning

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by RpbW, Jan 1, 2007.

  1. RpbW

    RpbW Newbie

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    I'm working on a friends ACER 5102WLMi (512 Mb - AMD Turion - 120 Gb HD)

    This one had already a C:\ and a D:\ partition (DVD-drive on E)

    After starting up for the first time I've made a Reovery DVD.
    After that I 've installed Paragon Partition Manager om C:\Program Files.

    I wanted (request from my friend) to create a third partition.
    So the first thing I did was to make C:\ smaller (30 Gb) and the space created had to go to D:\
    Paragon came with the message that C:\ was in use (of course) and I had to rebout my Acer.
    All went OK and I returned in a "DOS" screen and Paragon went on to deal with the partitions.
    Then suddely it was aborted (notebook on AC-power !!) and I couldn't restart any longer. Message : I had to reboot with the recover DVD.
    So I did (I pressed Alt-F10 during the visibility of the Acer-Logo) and it started re-installing form my Recover-DVD for about one hour and finished this.
    But now I can't still NOT Reboot !!! :(
    It looks like the active partition is'nt found (because Parogon had not finished te resizing of the C_partition ??)
    I thought that Recovering from the Recover DVD all should be OK now.

    WHAT TO DO ?? :confused:
    Now I have nothing more than a black screen. :eek:

    PLEASE HELP.

    RobW
     
    RpbW, Jan 1, 2007
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  2. Arla

    Arla Notebook Deity

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    I had similar issues and how I resolved it was to remove all partitions from the drive and then use the Recovery DVD, that worked just fine, it seems that the Recovery DVD is okay if the drive has the same partitions, or no partitions, but if some partitions exist then it appears to get confused.

    NOTE! I also deleted the recovery partition as well (assuming here your machine has one) not sure if you NEED to do this, or can leave it there, obviously this is all at your own risk.
     
    Arla, Jan 1, 2007
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