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Zingaro
October 27th, 2006, 08:06 AM
Hi,

I have an 80GB drive, with three partitions. C: and D: are Windows XP and Vista, (about 10GB each) and E: is Data (60GB)

I ran out of room on the Vista partition, so I tried to take a bit from XP and give it to Vista. When I ran Disk Director, I received "Error: Cannot Write to Drive at Sector xxx; Retry, Ignore, ignore All" I received one when shrinking the XP partition, and many more when trying to expand Vista.

I tried Retrying, didn't work - so I had no choice but to ignore. Now when I reboot, Vista doesn't load, but XP does. I can't see any data on the Vista partition anymore. The Vista Startup Repair is unable to do anything, reports the following:
Root cause found:
Boot configuration is corrupt.
Repair action: Partition table repair
Result: Failed. Error code = 0x490

And when I run "Check Partition" in Disk Director, I get the same thing, "Corrupt master file table. CHKDSK aborted."

I've attached a screenshot and Acronis' report.txt

Is there anything I should try before I re-install Vista et. al. for the ??th time?

Thank you very much,
Zingaro

Zingaro
October 27th, 2006, 08:07 AM
Screenshot

Batfink
October 28th, 2006, 06:43 PM
Looks like youve gotten into a bit of a mess:'(

-{ Quote: "Is there anything I should try before I re-install Vista et. al. for the ??th time?" }-

My Vista install takes up about 12gb... so I would suggest at least 15, or maybe even 20gb.... although it looks form your partitions that you dont have much room to play with anyway...???

Your C drive has no room to spare, and your DATA drive has only 9 gigs...

With this in mind I wouldnt cosider installing Vista, or get a larger drive...???