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John - 24 Dec 2003 02:33 GMT

I went into Disk Managment on my NT 4.0 SP6a workstation
and enabled an 8 meg section of the HDD as an Extended
partition, that was shown as "unavailable". It created
the partition as the E:\ drive and displayed it as
unformatted. Format was gray'ed out in the tools menu so
I rebooted. Now the Workstation will not boot, error
message indicates no bootable media is found. Do anyone
know of any uitility I can use to recover without
loosing too much?

Thanks
John

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xe77 - 28 Dec 2003 02:18 GMT

The Partition table may have been damaged by attempting to
do this. Windows NT may have been in the prcoess of
updating the tables when you rebooted (depending on how it
was done)
To recover:
Install the hard disk into anther computer running Windows
NT and use Disk Manager (WINDISK.EXE) to repair the
partition tables. If you can't see the partitions you may
need to repair the volume using data recovery software or
NDD if you are using FAT.

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