Total identified Windows installations: 0
please tell me you know how to fix this condition.
I had moved my Win 8.1 partition to the left to resize the drive with your free edition standard partition assistant.
After a restart, my pc apparently needs repairs. When trying to load windows the screen reads as follows:
RECOVERY
Your PC needs to be repaired.
A required device isnt connected or cant be accessed.
Error code:0xc0000225
something about using the useless recovery tools of which none of them worked, to try using installation media which failed as well and finally suggesting if all else fails contact your admin.
Press enter to try again
Press F8 for startup settings
Press F9 to use a different OS
none of these options work out either.
My new PC had XP on a partition to the left of win8
I used windows disk manager and deleted formatted removed reallocated whatever in an attempt to extend win8 part to the left. All the while reading warning messages about the left partition being a boot part, active part or whatever.
Windows had been dual booting giving a choice of either XP or Win8, but that didnt bother me as I was committed to killing XP for the space.Then I found out about the left partition limitation windows disk manager has. Still didnt occur to me that windows would nott have re-written what ever file it needed to to operate correctly.
Then your software does the impossible and move C: part all the way across the drive. It asked if I was serious and willing to commit several times before restarting and bricking my new win8 pc.
The sequence of events goes as follows.
1. Deleted XP partition that was to the left of Windows 8.1 C: partition. The realized "extend partition" was still unavailable because it was on the right of ...
2. Found Aomeitech software and used it efectively or so I thought.
3. Aomei restarted my pc at which point Windows took on updates I was unaware of.
4. Lost Windows 8.1
Attempted command line repairs to what is now called BCD. I tried things like the following based on walk thoughs found online. In no special order.
bootrec /rebuildbcd
bcdedit /export c:\bcdbackup
attrib c:\boot\bcd -h -r -s
ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old
ect ect..
After all failed, I typed ren c:\boot\bcd.old bcd as I am now in a panic and dont know what I am doing anymmore.
I am now on my wife stupid little laptop and I hate it.
Please help me get back on my fullsized pc before I throw this one against a wall.
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So whether deleting XP, Aomei, or windows updates did it.. I am at a loss.
Strangely, I just booted into windows XP on this same pc haveing thought for sure I killed it.
Apparently, I had XP on two disks. I am logged into XP disk 1 and can see disk 0.
It shows two partitions. The first 79GB is unallocated and the 386GB says Free space. I am certain Win8.1 lives on the 385GB space behind the 79GB space.
I sure hope one of you can get back to me before I screw things up from here.
Hi lordfarquadd,
Great to hear you can at least boot back to XP, How about your other partitions what do they show now?
From what I understand you are trying to format your XP partition and go solely on W8.1? We will try and walk through this with you
You mention showing two disks? Does your system have 2 disks installed? If so have you checked you BIOS to confirm which disk to boot up 1st?
buckitall please check you PM
WTF, I just noticed this aspect. How why and how do we fix it now?
As I understand it, to go from RAW to NTFS requiers formatting.
I typed convert c:/fs:ntfs and it say c is already ntfs.. wtf is going on>?
I give up, you need to fix this.
If your disk shows "RAW" and not formatted then perhaps you can still recover the partitions lost.
Have you tried Partition Assistant "Partition Recovery"?
You should have called me. What is now the C drive was my documents. What is now the E drive was the C drive. I think it is over, total identified windows installations 0, real nice.