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Trying to reformat & re-partition drive

Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 12:39 pm
by edanto
I made a mess of my Dad's netbook, and I'm trying to fix it up. I was using gparted to adjust the size of the partition and I think I accidentally typed in a number 9 instead of a 0.... honeslty I'm not sure what I might have done, but the machine is now stuck in a constant rebooting loop.

I have the re-install disks for XP Home, and I'll have an external CD drive tomorrow.

I have the UBCD ready to boot off a USB drive - but what tools should I use to repair any damage I've done to the drive? Is there anything I can do to diagnose with UBCD and discover why it's in this rebooting loop?

thanks

Re: Trying to reformat & re-partition drive

Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 8:06 pm
by flyingsilverfin
well if you aren't afraid to lose data you can always just reformat the partition, that should fix it if all u messed up was partitioning

Re: Trying to reformat & re-partition drive

Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 9:17 pm
by StopSpazzing
flyingsilverfin wrote:well if you aren't afraid to lose data you can always just reformat the partition, that should fix it if all u messed up was partitioning
This post was placed over 5 months ago. Very unlikely that the original poster is around.

To answer tho, I would just reinstall with the XP discs after backing up the data from the drive with Parted Magic from UBCD disc.

Re: Trying to reformat & re-partition drive

Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 11:43 am
by flyingsilverfin
oops didn't see the date :wink: