I just want to get my laptop operating normally, without reformatting the hard drive. (Meanwhile, I have a query pending with Paragon support.) My current idea is to attempt to fix the MBR via the recovery console, but in the meantime thought it best to ask independent advice at Experts Exchange, which I signed up for nearly a year ago but have not used for an inquiry until now. Next, I tried to do a repair install of Xp but halfway throughthe process when Xp reboots, I get the above-captioned message. Then I used the recovery CD created through Partition Manager, and tried to undo pending operations and update the MBR but this didn't seem to have any effect. To get rid of this message and enable normal boot up, I have tried the following:įirst, I attempted to create the floppy disk the message called for from another machine for insertion via a USB floppy drive, but this operation kept failing. This occurs near the beginning of the boot process. I keep getting the above-captioned message ( 'Your disks were modified by Paragon Partition Engine.' Insert its boot diskette and press any key.'). The primary problem is that I can now longer boot up in Windows Xp on my Dell laptop as I

I have copies elsewhere so this is not my concern here.Ģ. It appears I have lost all the data on the backup drive since the partitioning operations failed. Perhaps I should have let it continue, but I needed to do some work on my computer and had to exit the boot process by powering off. Then it seemed to hang for a long time indicating about 15 hours to complete. The partitioning proceeded normally until it was 99% done. For convenience, I switched the drive to my main laptop (Dell Inspiron 6400) on which I have the above software installed. Today I decided to partition a data drive (Western digital external 200 gb) which I was using as a backup for a Dell desktop running XP.

I have a problem resulting from my use of Paragon Partition Manager 2005, a program I have used before without difficulty to resize/create new disk partitions.

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