Invisible NTFS boot Partition

[student]

Hi, Here's what I'm running, AMD2700xp, A7N8X DX, 512ddr400, ATI 9700 Pro on WinXP Pro. on Thursday, it was all working good, Friday I went to start it and it was dead, I had no pre-post, no cmos, nada, there was power to the fans (cpu, case and power on the 9700pro). make long story short, I replaced the PS, got prepost, but thats about all, I checked HD with WD diagnostic disk, it was ok, rebooted using winme startup disk where i found that my C drive is now D, D is E and so on, C drive now is not my real C?, checked it with Fdisk/display partition info, there it is, Part. 1, NFTS, 11450GB, 10% used?,
How come its invisible?, renamed? HELP I'm totally confused, is there any way i can get it back to C(my winxpbootdrive)?
I'd hate to loose it, any info please
thanks

 

[khha4113]

Can you boot into Windows XP?

How come its invisible?, renamed?

It's not invisible (apparently FDisk sees it). NTFS volume does not have drive letter assigned (which only applies to WinMe or 98) with FDisk.

Good or Bad have no meaning at all, depends on what your point of view is.

 

[student]

No, it won't boot, just freezes, no error messages either??
yet seems like all folders are on the other partitons? viewing with startup disk?

 

[khha4113]

You cannot view NTFS volume (WinXP) if you boot your comp by WinME startup disk.
Do you have WinXP CD available? If you do, boot from it, and choose repair.
There are 2 repair options if you boot from XP CD. The 1st one when you get into <b>Welcome to Setup Menu</b> screen is only to fix file system boot sector. Use this option if you altered its Master Boot Record (MBR) by FDisk so WinXP can be boot.
The 2nd to reinstall Windows appears on the next menu if you press <b>Enter</b> on above menu. Choose this option to reinstall your Windows installation.

Good or Bad have no meaning at all, depends on what your point of view is.

 

[student]

thanks for the reply, one slight problem, it won't boot from the CD, don't know why?, and yes I have the CDRom as a boot device in the cmos.

 

[khha4113]

You can boot from floppy (but it'd be slow). The WinXP's bootdisks you can download from <b><A HREF="http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm" target="_new"><font color=blue>here</A></b></font color=blue>

Good or Bad have no meaning at all, depends on what your point of view is.

 

[student]

Thanks for the Help khha4113, but even that isn't working. Getting error loading setupdd.sys (code4, code1)and so on.
its got me more then baffled
🙁
thanks