From: vwheeler 

After 3 weeks 97% of the drive is recovered I can boot NT4 and W2K.

  The original problem was not the addition of the extra partition it
turns out the failure was caused by an older DVD/CD drive this took most of
the time to trouble shoot just to get a stable system to work with.

The data corruption started in the last several sectors of the Primary FAT
(boot) partition a couple of files in that partition were corrupted and
lost. The first partition of the extended partition a FAT16 510M was
completely wiped out. The first part of the next extended partition a 5G
NTFS partition was also over written with garbage.

  For partition recovery I purchased Acronis PowerUtilites and restored
5 of the 7 missing partitions with Recovery Expert.

After some research I used Acronis Disk Editor to recreate the missing
FAT16 and NTFS partition tables and link them with the others completing
the extended partition chain. DFSee and Knoppix can see some of the files
on the NTFS partition so some recovery may still be possible. I
re-formatted the FAT16 partition and restored it from a 4 month old backup.

Win2k still would not boot I had to restore the boot using the recovery
console, NT booted on the first try.

One problem remains I had(have) 2 W2K boots the second one was installed as
a maintenance boot it was assigned a higher drive letter when it was
installed. The problem is I get to the press ctrl-alt-del to login after I
enter the username and password the logon keeps coming back to the press
ctrl-alt-del to login again. Searching the Microsoft data base for my
symptom I learned this is because the user's profile can not be found The
profile should be on drive W which does not exist the partition is now
drive the default H. I was directed to this Knowledge Base Article
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;223188&Product=win2000
  for the solution of changing the assigned drive letters what is not
explained is how can I edit the registry when the only boot options are the
Recovery console or the other W2k boot? Booting safe mode on the
maintenance partitions does not logon either. I know I could just
re-install which would be quicker, however...



Frank Haber wrote:
> Let us know what it was.  The one and only time I saw that error message, it
> was a little disagreement between Partition Magic ?5 and DISKPREP/NT4 over
> what the proper end sector was for a partition (FAT).  PM made C: a teensy
bit
> bigger.  NT wrapped.  Boom.
>

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