Two SATA hard drives, one with (primary) XP, the other with Windows 7. Used Paragon HD Manager program to resize the two partitions on the Windows 7 hard drive, and computer wouldn't boot up to finish the partitioning process.
Computer won't even boot up to enter SetUP/Bios/Cmos. A message says it is going to enter Setup, but it just hangs there.
Disconnected my primary XP drive (soloed the Win 7 drive): same symptoms.
Took out Win 7 HDD (Western Digital, 320 GB, Caviar Green), and replaced it with a 40 GB Western Digital, and everything started working again.
(1) When a HDD dies, can't a person still enter Setup?
(2) Was it just a coincidence that the attempt to resize the partitions happened at the same time the HDD died? The HDD is about a month old. OR did Paragon mess up the HDD and the OS and Data and HDD, for that matter, are still recoverable?
Thanks for your help.
Ken
Computer won't even boot up to enter SetUP/Bios/Cmos. A message says it is going to enter Setup, but it just hangs there.
Disconnected my primary XP drive (soloed the Win 7 drive): same symptoms.
Took out Win 7 HDD (Western Digital, 320 GB, Caviar Green), and replaced it with a 40 GB Western Digital, and everything started working again.
(1) When a HDD dies, can't a person still enter Setup?
(2) Was it just a coincidence that the attempt to resize the partitions happened at the same time the HDD died? The HDD is about a month old. OR did Paragon mess up the HDD and the OS and Data and HDD, for that matter, are still recoverable?
Thanks for your help.
Ken