packardmelan
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I was messing around with some partitions on my spare hard drive tonight, and screwing around with Linux and Windows XP and stuff. What I ended up doing was creating a 2 GB partition with ext3, and a 76 GB partition with hfs+ or whatever.
I followed a wiki that was telling me how to change the active partition from the first (2gb partition) to the second (the 76gb partition), using Windows XP and the diskpart program. Windows seemed happy with the outcome and I shut down the PC.
On boot, it locks up. I can't get to my BIOS setup, I can't boot to XP, I can't boot to Linux, I can't boot off CD. Maybe I could try to boot off USB, but if the BIOS won't, I doubt USB would either. If I unhook the hard drive I swapped the active partition on, everything boots up fine. But if I hook it back up, it locks up.
Please tell me that setting up a PARTITION didn't fry the hard drive... What do I do? I'm SOL, aren't I?
I followed a wiki that was telling me how to change the active partition from the first (2gb partition) to the second (the 76gb partition), using Windows XP and the diskpart program. Windows seemed happy with the outcome and I shut down the PC.
On boot, it locks up. I can't get to my BIOS setup, I can't boot to XP, I can't boot to Linux, I can't boot off CD. Maybe I could try to boot off USB, but if the BIOS won't, I doubt USB would either. If I unhook the hard drive I swapped the active partition on, everything boots up fine. But if I hook it back up, it locks up.
Please tell me that setting up a PARTITION didn't fry the hard drive... What do I do? I'm SOL, aren't I?