Partitioning fail = dead???

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Was trying to add a partition (resize c and then add new) to my dad's 500gb C: drive and it failed. It now won't boot or when booting from XP CD it doesn't even see the drive to repair or reformat and install.

Is the drive dead? anything I can do?
 
have you run disk check, maybe there was an error on your disk (bad sector or etc...)....
 
I'm a bit stuck now. I have 1 PC with 1 HDD that doesn't boot and when i boot from XP CD, it fails to see the drive. I guess the file tables or something pretty low level in the HDD is corrupt. What I don't know is if this is repairable if at all?
 
Yeah, will give that a go thanks. I have used gparted before but it took forever with NTFS. I guess i have no other choice.

Will give it a whirl now, ta.
 
Is the drive visible in the BIOS? If not check the settings/cables.

If the drive is fine, then is it attached to a RAID controller - this may explain why XP Setup doesn't see it, as additional drivers may be required.

If the PC can't see the disk at all, then gparted/format/XP setup are never going to work!
 
Cheers for the help. All sorted now.

BIOS could always see it, XP install CD wouldn't as the mobo was an old socket A NF7 board that needs SATA drivers on a floppy, so I had to slip stream the XP install.(no FDD)

Wierdly tho, gparted wasn't able to sort out the table/index issues with the drive and it took the slipstreamed XP to fix it.

Cheers y'all :D
 
Testdisk would have repaired the partition table
gparted is a partitioning tool, it doesn't repair past mistakes

Yhe reason it takes so long is that it doesnt make mistakes. Id much rather leave it running overnight thatn have it finish in half an hour with a 95% chance of success.

I suspect all you needed to do was set the NF7 board to enhanced ide mode instead of sata/ahci, but slipstreaming works too.

Glad you sorted it out
 
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