problems aft pc crash

hi everyone!
my pc system is recovering from a serious crash resulting from a partition chaos (i happened to have been the cause )
so - the pc boots again ... BUT, there are some issues ...

1) windows 7 boots ... then goes into "starting desktop" and then remains on a light blue screen with the windows 7 build (7100) information in the lower right corner (& something like: "the authenticity of this version has not been validated yet"). nothing else. after waking up from "energy save" mode, the proper user selection tab appeared but when i clicked it, i got the same light blue blank screen - any ideas? windows repair mode does not show me any errors.
2) sorry if this is xp related but in case i will observe the same behavior in w7 also, i think its legit to add this second problem here: after merging some partitions i find several folders "inaccessible" ie: clicking on it gives me "acces denied" . i tried to boot into save mode and adjust the user authorisations - however to no avail. even here i would get the message, that i do not have the authorisation ... / i could think - however i do not know for sure, that it could somehow be related to merging of two partitions. // being in admin mode - very strange isn't it? hmm ... any clues?

can someone think of a solution?

thanks for reading,
markus

149047 said:

hi everyone!
my pc system is recovering from a serious crash resulting from a partition chaos (i happened to have been the cause )
so - the pc boots again ... BUT, there are some issues ...

1) windows 7 boots ... then goes into "starting desktop" and then remains on a light blue screen with the windows 7 build (7100) information in the lower right corner (& something like: "the authenticity of this version has not been validated yet"). nothing else. after waking up from "energy save" mode, the proper user selection tab appeared but when i clicked it, i got the same light blue blank screen - any ideas? windows repair mode does not show me any errors.
2) sorry if this is xp related but in case i will observe the same behavior in w7 also, i think its legit to add this second problem here: after merging some partitions i find several folders "inaccessible" ie: clicking on it gives me "acces denied" . i tried to boot into save mode and adjust the user authorisations - however to no avail. even here i would get the message, that i do not have the authorisation ... / i could think - however i do not know for sure, that it could somehow be related to merging of two partitions. // being in admin mode - very strange isn't it? hmm ... any clues?

can someone think of a solution?

thanks for reading,
markus

markus

I just dont know where to start. did you "merge" the partitions? How?

I think you have so, so, many problems the only way to fix them will be to re-install windows, (and xp if it doesn't work)

Ken

zigzag3143 said:

markus

I just dont know where to start. did you "merge" the partitions? How?

I think you have so, so, many problems the only way to fix them will be to re-install windows, (and xp if it doesn't work)

Ken

ken, thanks for posting!

i merged the partitions in partition magic 8.
hm ... i guess you're right. will go an make a clean new install.
unless ... hmm ... i'll wait for another 2 hours. perhaps some idea surfaces in this forum :)
markus

149047 said:

ken, thanks for posting!

i merged the partitions in partition magic 8.
hm ... i guess you're right. will go an make a clean new install.
unless ... hmm ... i'll wait for another 2 hours. perhaps some idea surfaces in this forum :)
markus

So you dont want to dual boot roght? did you merge before the install? does either system work?

Ken

zigzag3143 said:

So you dont want to dual boot roght? did you merge before the install? does either system work?

Ken

ok here's the details:
i have a working xp on the system.
then i installed w7 on a second partition
everything worked fine.

then i installed w7 64bit on a third partition (just bought 8gigs of ram)

at that moment the new and the old partitions made a real mess and unfortunately i decided to do a cleanup here. so i merged some partitions (no system partitions !!!) and rearranged free space.

here partition magic must have screwed something up because from then on w7 would not show up in the mbr anymore. the error i got was a faulty ntoskrnl.exe. so i went into repair mode (from bootdisk) and made an automatic repair. after that w7 showed up in the mbr again. however - after the user-icon the desktop would not come back and stay as described.
winxp is still perfectly ok

149047 said:

ok here's the details:
i have a working xp on the system.
then i installed w7 on a second partition
everything worked fine.

then i installed w7 64bit on a third partition (just bought 8gigs of ram)

at that moment the new and the old partitions made a real mess and unfortunately i decided to do a cleanup here. so i merged some partitions (no system partitions !!!) and rearranged free space.

here partition magic must have screwed something up because from then on w7 would not show up in the mbr anymore. the error i got was a faulty ntoskrnl.exe. so i went into repair mode (from bootdisk) and made an automatic repair. after that w7 showed up in the mbr again. however - after the user-icon the desktop would not come back and stay as described.
winxp is still perfectly ok

Ok
So xp is fine. You are going to use 64bit right? Best, fastest way is to kill 32bit, and 64, re-install 64bit and it should be fine. If you can get into the win 7 installs back up anything you need.

Ken