mmn
August 26th, 2007, 02:03 PM
I have a Compaq laptop with a 40 Gb HD. Several years ago I partitioned it into c, d and e, using Partition Magic. As c and e were running out of space, I decided to move some space from d. I ran CHKDSK in all 3, and no errors were found. I then ran PM and moved space from d into c. Everything worked fine. I then ran PM again to move space from d into e. It worked for about one hour, and when it was 98% complete, PM gave me an error message saying that one of the disks (didn't say which) had a bad sector, it aborted, and asked for a reboot. When I rebooted, I got a blue screen when Windows started to load. I ran the disk check utility of the BIOS, and it failed. I tried to boot in safe mode, recover the last good known configuration, didn't work either. I then booted from the XP CD, and selected the Recovery Console, but it aborted saying the wrong drive was specified. It did not recognize the c drive.
I then used Acronis Bootable Recue Media Builder to create a bootable CD and tried both ADD Full Version and Safe Version. I got an error message saying that it failed to read from sector 40,869,360 on HD 1. I selected retry, ignore, ignore all, but no matter what option, I got the same results: ADD goes to the Analyzing Partition screen and does not progress. It seems to be in a loop trying to read the HD, or frozen.
By the way, I am running XP2 and ADD 10.0 (build 2,160).
Any suggestions?
Thanks
I then used Acronis Bootable Recue Media Builder to create a bootable CD and tried both ADD Full Version and Safe Version. I got an error message saying that it failed to read from sector 40,869,360 on HD 1. I selected retry, ignore, ignore all, but no matter what option, I got the same results: ADD goes to the Analyzing Partition screen and does not progress. It seems to be in a loop trying to read the HD, or frozen.
By the way, I am running XP2 and ADD 10.0 (build 2,160).
Any suggestions?
Thanks