Merge operation made drive unbootable

[Anthony PDC]

After using Disk Director 10 to merge my drive C: (windows xp partition) with a large empty partition, all the data from my old C: drive, including the OS, has been placed in a folder on the new, single partition. Obviously I cannot now boot my machine. At the time, I thought it was odd that Director prompted me for a folder name for the data from the "old" partition.

Any ideas on how I can shift the data in the folder back to the root of the new C: drive? I realise it was probably my mistake, but I must say I got a bit confused by the user interface. I was just expecting Director to merge the two partitions transparently, but I guess not >:(

[Anthony PDC]

Actually, I have just had a thought: perhaps the easiest solution might be to boot from a windows 98 startup disk and copy a boot.ini file which has been edited to point to the Windows folder location in the new folder created by DD 10 during the merge operation?

Would that work?

[Acronis Support]

Hello Anthony PDC,

Thank you for using Acronis Disk Management Software (http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/diskdirectorsuite/)

Please note that to save your system working you should merge D: partition into C: partition.

We can not guarantee that it will work but in present situation the most probably useful workaround is:
- Open the folder where now your system files are.
- Cut them out of it and paste it in the root directory of your present active partition.
- Then edit boot.ini file properly and put it in the root directory of the same active partition.

Thank you
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Alexander Gladkov