Partition problems

[Phrost]

His a friend of mine just tried adding a partition to an active NTFS hard drive and now when he tries to boot it keeps restarting.

Is there anything I can do or do I have to format?

[I2n0ld]

what did he actually do? need more details pls

[Bill in SD, CA]

Need a step by step of what went down.



Bill

[Phrost]

I believe he had 20 GB left of space he wanted to partition to use specifically for files of some sort so he used the computer management paritioner (in XP) to try and partition the last 20 GB's or so.

Now when he tries to start up it keeps rebooting, when he tries to enter safe mode and such it keeps rebooting.

I always thought when partitioning you should do it off of a format?

Any ideas? If you have any more questions please ask me and Ill try to get them.

[Dj-Icer]

Its from FAT32 (file allocation table) to NTFS, for max security performance.

NTFS has disadvantages. A FAT32 cannot detect a NTFS format. Thats a problem. I think you should format your HDD and reinstall XP. The CD itself has a helpful utility.

[Phrost]

Originally posted by Dj-Icer
Its from FAT32 (file allocation table) to NTFS, for max security performance.

NTFS has disadvantages. A FAT32 cannot detect a NTFS format. Thats a problem. I think you should format your HDD and reinstall XP. The CD itself has a helpful utility.

The original HDD was in NTFS, he wanted to partition the last 20 GB if the NTFS 120 GB HDD to a seperate letter obviously so he could make file sorting a little bit easier.

I guess what Im trying to ask is if there is a way to get the computer to boot back up to windows without him losing all his stuff.

[Phrost]

Ok got it fixed, I got one more question

if I allocate all the free space into a new partition, is that new partition completely clean of say registry stuff?

[washe]

yep.... it will be like adding a new drive.