Hi all, Please help me in resolving my issue Issue: my system has 250GB hard disk and 5 partitions c,d,e,f,g,h c has windows server 2003 and e has windows xp sp2 whenever i start my computer i get a boot choice menu I use more frequently xp as mozilla is crashed in xp i started chkdsk in e drive it was completed successfully and took hours time and didnot boot then i tried to repair xp in e drive and could not get it then due to urgency i formatted c drive and installed xp again in c drive now my system has xp installed in c and e drive the issue is iam not getting boot choice menu and always xp in c is being booted please help me how to boot into xp in e drive or atleast help me how to open E:/Documents and Settings/Administrator from xp os in c as xp in e drive is password protected (it is working in repair console) problem is i have some data on e desktop otherwise i could have formatted e drive thank you very much Please help me in solving this issue anitha
So you have 6 partitions on one drive all at about 20 something GB in size? That is a poor thing to do, especially on a single hard drive. If the single drive fails, you loose all partitioned data. In this case, the hard drive might be failing. Next time, create partitions on more than one hard drive. Also be aware that you loose a lot of hard drive space when you partition like you have