I was using Acronis Disk Director Suite 10 to partition my hard drive
and upon the necessary reboot after the start up screen nothing
happened. I waited for a while to no avail. So I manually restarted
my laptop and the same thing continued to happen. I tried starting
up
in safe mode and was able to get in the first time I tried but while
trying to do a system restore i received an error that told me that
SecEvent.evt was corrupt and I need to run chkdsk (I don't know how
to
do this). It restarted again and didn't go anywhere beyond the start
up screen. I tried using an XP boot disk I made (which I have used
successfully in the past) and the same thing happened again. I even
tried booting off of my XP disk but it would just try to
automatically
load Windows and would hang at that point. I am using a Toshiba
Satellite laptop that has 528 MB of RAM and Windows XP SP2 installed.
When I tried to repair the installation via XP CD the option never
showed up...what do I do?
Thanks
Munkey
"Munkeyjunkey" <munkeyjunkey86@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I was using Acronis Disk Director Suite 10 to partition my hard drive
> and upon the necessary reboot after the start up screen nothing
> happened. I waited for a while to no avail. So I manually restarted
> my laptop and the same thing continued to happen. I tried starting
> up
> in safe mode and was able to get in the first time I tried but while
> trying to do a system restore i received an error that told me that
> SecEvent.evt was corrupt and I need to run chkdsk (I don't know how
> to
> do this). It restarted again and didn't go anywhere beyond the start
> up screen. I tried using an XP boot disk I made (which I have used
> successfully in the past) and the same thing happened again. I even
> tried booting off of my XP disk but it would just try to
> automatically
> load Windows and would hang at that point. I am using a Toshiba
> Satellite laptop that has 528 MB of RAM and Windows XP SP2 installed.
> When I tried to repair the installation via XP CD the option never
> showed up...what do I do?
> Thanks
> Munkey
>
What exactly were you doing with Acronis Disk Director10 ? Were you
modifying an existing partitions size?
Sorry to tell you, but XP doesn't like it's partition to change size, it will
refuse to boot, when using ACronis you need to choose a different disc then
what XP resides on.
You may have to re-install XP via a reformat of the HD
"Munkeyjunkey" wrote:
> I was using Acronis Disk Director Suite 10 to partition my hard drive
> and upon the necessary reboot after the start up screen nothing
> happened. I waited for a while to no avail. So I manually restarted
> my laptop and the same thing continued to happen. I tried starting
> up
> in safe mode and was able to get in the first time I tried but while
> trying to do a system restore i received an error that told me that
> SecEvent.evt was corrupt and I need to run chkdsk (I don't know how
> to
> do this). It restarted again and didn't go anywhere beyond the start
> up screen. I tried using an XP boot disk I made (which I have used
> successfully in the past) and the same thing happened again. I even
> tried booting off of my XP disk but it would just try to
> automatically
> load Windows and would hang at that point. I am using a Toshiba
> Satellite laptop that has 528 MB of RAM and Windows XP SP2 installed.
> When I tried to repair the installation via XP CD the option never
> showed up...what do I do?
> Thanks
> Munkey
>
>
On Jun 28, 5:50 pm, sgopus <sgo...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Sorry to tell you, but XP doesn't like it's partition to change size, it will
> refuse to boot, when using ACronis you need to choose a different disc then
> what XP resides on.
> You may have to re-install XP via a reformat of the HD
>
> "Munkeyjunkey" wrote:
> > I was using Acronis Disk Director Suite 10 to partition my hard drive
> > and upon the necessary reboot after the start up screen nothing
> > happened. I waited for a while to no avail. So I manually restarted
> > my laptop and the same thing continued to happen. I tried starting
> > up
> > in safe mode and was able to get in the first time I tried but while
> > trying to do a system restore i received an error that told me that
> > SecEvent.evt was corrupt and I need to run chkdsk (I don't know how
> > to
> > do this). It restarted again and didn't go anywhere beyond the start
> > up screen. I tried using an XP boot disk I made (which I have used
> > successfully in the past) and the same thing happened again. I even
> > tried booting off of my XP disk but it would just try to
> > automatically
> > load Windows and would hang at that point. I am using a Toshiba
> > Satellite laptop that has 528 MB of RAM and Windows XP SP2 installed.
> > When I tried to repair the installation via XP CD the option never
> > showed up...what do I do?
> > Thanks
> > Munkey
I did change the size of the partition that XP was on, is there any
way to undo this problem rather than completely formatting the HD?
Thanks
Munkey
"sgopus" <sgopus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:27B3DC36-EB9E-4A37-9481-E9ED351A8F1B@microsoft.com...
> Sorry to tell you, but XP doesn't like it's partition to change size, it
> will
> refuse to boot, when using ACronis you need to choose a different disc
> then
> what XP resides on.
> You may have to re-install XP via a reformat of the HD
>
This is incorrect. Acronis Disk Director is specifically
engineered to change partition sizes, both system and
data partitions. I have done lots of these, the most
recent one only two days ago.
"Munkeyjunkey" <munkeyjunkey86@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1183065831.239180.180110@k29g2000hsd.googlegr oups.com...
>I was using Acronis Disk Director Suite 10 to partition my hard drive
> and upon the necessary reboot after the start up screen nothing
> happened. I waited for a while to no avail. So I manually restarted
> my laptop and the same thing continued to happen. I tried starting
> up
> in safe mode and was able to get in the first time I tried but while
> trying to do a system restore i received an error that told me that
> SecEvent.evt was corrupt and I need to run chkdsk (I don't know how
> to
> do this). It restarted again and didn't go anywhere beyond the start
> up screen. I tried using an XP boot disk I made (which I have used
> successfully in the past) and the same thing happened again. I even
> tried booting off of my XP disk but it would just try to
> automatically
> load Windows and would hang at that point. I am using a Toshiba
> Satellite laptop that has 528 MB of RAM and Windows XP SP2 installed.
> When I tried to repair the installation via XP CD the option never
> showed up...what do I do?
> Thanks
> Munkey
>
Partition manipulation is usually safe but it can fail. Yours looks
like it has gone haywire. This is why it is a good idea to create
an image of a partition before resizing it, storing it on a different
disk.
You probably have to reinstall Windows. Is your data backed
up?
I never said Acronis won't change partition sizes, it will and does a fine
job of it.
I said XP doesn't like it's partition to change size and may refuse to boot
once this is done.
"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
>
> "sgopus" <sgopus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:27B3DC36-EB9E-4A37-9481-E9ED351A8F1B@microsoft.com...
> > Sorry to tell you, but XP doesn't like it's partition to change size, it
> > will
> > refuse to boot, when using ACronis you need to choose a different disc
> > then
> > what XP resides on.
> > You may have to re-install XP via a reformat of the HD
> >
>
> This is incorrect. Acronis Disk Director is specifically
> engineered to change partition sizes, both system and
> data partitions. I have done lots of these, the most
> recent one only two days ago.
>
>
>
On Jun 28, 7:00 pm, sgopus <sgo...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I never said Acronis won't change partition sizes, it will and does a fine
> job of it.
> I said XP doesn't like it's partition to change size and may refuse to boot
> once this is done.
>
> "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
>
> > "sgopus" <sgo...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >news:27B3DC36-EB9E-4A37-9481-E9ED351A8F1B@microsoft.com...
> > > Sorry to tell you, but XP doesn't like it's partition to change size, it
> > > will
> > > refuse to boot, when using ACronis you need to choose a different disc
> > > then
> > > what XP resides on.
> > > You may have to re-install XP via a reformat of the HD
>
> > This is incorrect. Acronis Disk Director is specifically
> > engineered to change partition sizes, both system and
> > data partitions. I have done lots of these, the most
> > recent one only two days ago.
Ok, thanks for the help and unintended bad news, much appreciated.
Munkey
>I never said Acronis won't change partition sizes, it will and does a fine
>job of it.
>I said XP doesn't like it's partition to change size and may refuse to boot
>once this is done.
>
Not true. I do it quite frequently, and not just with Acronis. I
have also done it with Partition Magic and with BootItNG.
Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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