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Paragon Partition Manager causing boot error

by tanjiro Jul 11, 2009 9:50AM PDT

Hi all, I'm hoping for some help with an issue that is causing me some grief!

I used to triple boot on my Inspiron 1525, but got tired of it so decided recently to remove all my unwanted partitions and simply run Vista. I got rid of most of them easily with Vista's Disk Management, but there was one for which I had to use Paragon.

I selected to extend existing partitions and chose to put all my free space into my existing Vista partition. Simple job. It started doing its thing and an hour or so later it finished, but it said 'some error occured' and then rebooted.

When it rebooted it got past the Dell splash screen and went blank.

This is where I'm currently at. Very frustrating. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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by Jimmy Greystone Jul 11, 2009 10:50AM PDT

Sounds like you get to reinstall Vista. Hope you had a backup of anything important.

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One possibility...

by John.Wilkinson Jul 11, 2009 11:51AM PDT

If you have a retail Windows Vista or Windows 7 DVD available (yours or a friend's), you can insert the Windows DVD, restart your computer, and press any key to boot from CD/DVD when prompted. (You may have to edit your BIOS settings to set your optical drive as your primary boot device.) Once the Windows installer launches, proceed through the keyboard/language selection and, instead of clicking Install Now, choose "Repair my Computer" from the bottom left corner. Finally, choose the Startup Repair option and restart your computer once it completes. If it is just a boot loader issue, that will fix it. Otherwise, the easiest (and perhaps only) solution will be to start over.

John

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