used MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition

kuppa · 08 Apr 2012

Hi, I just used MiniTool Partition Wizard Home edition to Move/Resize my Primary hard drive. The final result is it has removed my "C" drive letter and the status is now "none" and of course I cannot boot up my vista laptop, any help would be gratefully received. I can boot with the minitool cd and can see the hard drive and explore its contents,and it says it is the primary drive but I see no "Drive Letters" and the status is "none"

Thankyou
kuppa

SIW2 · 08 Apr 2012

Boot the partition Wizard cd.

Make sure the Vista partition is marked Active.( If not, mark it active )

Rt click it and assign it a drive letter.

Boot the Vista dvd or Vista install dvd or win7 repair cd or Win7 install dvd and run startup repair 2 or 3 times.

Sir George · 08 Apr 2012

kuppa said:

Hi, I just used MiniTool Partition Wizard Home edition to Move/Resize my Primary hard drive. The final result is it has removed my "C" drive letter and the status is now "none" and of course I cannot boot up my vista laptop, any help would be gratefully received. I can boot with the minitool cd and can see the hard drive and explore its contents,and it says it is the primary drive but I see no "Drive Letters" and the status is "none"

Thankyou
kuppa

Visit their website at;

http://www.partitionwizard.com/support.html

HTH

gregrocker · 08 Apr 2012

This is why one should always use the PW boot disk - because it will never fail - while all other partition managers except Disk management can and will fail.

However if you can see your data then it's likely recoverable using the method SIW2 posted.

If you get stuck please post back a camera snap of the PW drive map and listings: Screen Shots

kuppa · 08 Apr 2012

g'day all, I thank you for your very prompt replies. appologies, I should have told you it is a acer laptop, that I had made factory recovery discs for and I get no offer of repair. I did boot using the partition wizard cd but partition would not stay active and I still could not allocate a drive letter (that part was greyed out) I do thank you again for your effort to help me but have decided to bite the bullet, learn from MY mistakes and do a factory recovery.