Windows 7 Won't "Fully" Boot After Modifying Partitions

I've been trying to split my 250GB Hard drive into 2 partitions - a Windows Directory and a Media Drive so that in the event that I have to reinstall Windows, I won't have to worry about moving files over to a new partition/disk. I am using Paragon Partition Manager to do this (Only software I have). I had a 40GB partition leftover from an Ubuntu install which I used the Windows Disk Manager to delete and recreate as an NTFS partition. I then went into Paragon and told it to resize the disk, taking 40 GB from what was leftover from the Primary partition and putting it into the 40GB partition, making the media drive 80GB.

The computer successfully restarted and the Paragon screen appeared and began to resize the partitions. Half way through however, an external USB drive fell off my desk and was inadvertently unplugged from my computer. Consequently, Paragon errored with the message "Disk I/O Failed", which makes absolutely NO sense since the procedure was working on the 250GB internal drive, not the USB external.

Paragon automatically rebooted the computer "sucessfully" back into Windows, albeit the bootup time took a good 10 minutes. According to the disk manager, the partitions were not modified, they were left intact.I then tried to resize the partitions again (probably a mistake, but it theoretically should have worked). When the computer was reboot, the Paragon screen appeared, but this time it said that there were errors on the disk because of cross-linking between files across multiple partitions (even though the partitions were not modified?)

I attempted to reboot again. The windows logo appears on the boot screen, but when it tried to get into the welcome screen it only displays a black screen with a movable cursor, and absolutely no hard drive activity.

Does anybody have any recommendations? I've tried safe mode, last known configuration. My next plan of attack was to boot into a command prompt and run a chkdsk to see if the file structure is indeed damaged. I would like to save the windows installation and all of my files, but as long as I can get my files off I don't give a about saving the Windows installation.

 

Sorry to double post, but simply running chkdsk is yielding a ton of "Deleting Corrupt attribute (128, '''') record from file record segment XXXXXX"

 

I had a BSOD from paragon on win7, I just use the build in tool:

Admin toold->Computer management->Storage

I shrink a drive then make a new partition.

 

yeah, this sounds like a house of cards...

 

I agree (in retrospect) that Paragon sucks, but does that mean there is no hope?

I've been letting this chkdsk run for 15 minutes and it's just constant "Replacing invalid security id" now...

 

Error message makes sense if the program wasn't getting the results it was expecting from accessing the drive.
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Looks like the job was half done.

Try boot into a (for instance) Ubuntu live CD and see if you can get your files off before the drive gets any more corrupted.

 

You can boot into unbuntu or vista,Xp,2000 or whatever other OS's you have?

 

my only question is that why did unplugging an external hard drive cause IO errors with the internal hard drive?

i currently can't boot into ubuntu because it's no longer installed.

so would it be wise to continue the chkdsk or cut my loses and salvage the data?

 

You might as well since it probably won't help now. When you use the Ext drive did it install some kind of drivers for it or does that autoplay show up?

 

when i use the external drive the autoplay shows up. but like if you even try to use that as a disk source in Paragon it gives you an error that it is an unsupported device, which is why I'm totally confused why the USB drive totally screwed things up.

I've also tried swapping out the hard drive from my laptop and using it as an external on my desktop. the only problem is that it sees the C:\ drive, but it gives access denied and reports no drive space information about it. I'm not sure if this is a Windows 7 security issue or if the drive is legitimately damaged, but I'm gonna try Ubuntu and see if I have better luck.

 

Can you format the EXT drive to NTFS or anything else?

 

I managed to get it to appear on my desktop as an external drive and am salvaging the data. Thanks!

 

Good luck buddy.