I have an HP/Compaq 2530p laptop with Windows XP installed. During installation I tried to create Rescue Disks and was told my floppy wasn't formatted (which it was). I manually formatted the floppies and tried again. Then it told me I didn't have enough room on the floppy even though it was empty. I bypassed creating the Rescue Disks and continued on with installation.
I attempted to start Partition Magic (both through windows and thru cd boot) and I received Init failed: Error 117. Partition's drive letter cannot be identified.
Back in Windows, I attempted to open Disk Mapper and received:
Symantec PartitionInfo 8.0 -- Windows NT/2000 Version
Date Generated: 07/23/10 09:41:56
Copyright (c)1994-2004, Symantec Corporation
Permission is granted for this utility to be freely copied so long
as it is not modified in any way. All other rights are reserved.
Symantec, makers of Norton PartitionMagic(r), Drive Image(tm), and DriveCopy(tm), can be reached at:
Voice: 801-437-8900
Fax: 801-226-8941
Web site: http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/
General System Information:
Total Physical Memory (bytes): 2,056,458,240
Used Physical Memory: (bytes): 559,112,192
Maximum Page File Size: (bytes): 4,040,126,464
Current Page File Size: (bytes): 499,658,752
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Disk Geometry Information for Disk 1: 14593 Cylinders, 255 Heads, 63 Sectors/Track
System PartSect # Boot BCyl Head Sect FS ECyl Head Sect StartSect NumSects
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0 0 80 0 1 1 07 1023 254 63 63 67,135,572
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values are:
0 0 80 0 1 1 07 4178 254 63 63 67135572
0 1 00 1023 0 1 07 1023 254 63 67,135,635 148,424,535
Info: Begin C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values are:
0 1 00 4179 0 1 07 13417 254 63 67135635 148424535
0 2 00 1023 47 54 07 1023 80 63 215,563,184 18,878,464
Info: Begin C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values are:
0 2 00 13418 47 54 07 14593 80 63 215563184 18878464
Error #105: Partition didn't begin on head boundary.
ucBeginHead expected to be 0 or 1, not 47.
Error #106: Partition didn't begin on head boundary.
ucBeginSector expected to be 1, not 54.
Error #109: Partition ends after end of disk.
ucEndCylinder (14593) must be less than 14593.
Error #108: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary.
ucEndHead expected to be 254, not 80.
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Partition Information for Disk 1: 114,471.0 Megabytes
Volume PartType Status Size MB PartSect # StartSect TotalSects
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C: NTFS Pri,Boot 32,781.0 0 0 63 67,135,572
F: NTFS Pri 72,472.9 0 1 67,135,635 148,424,535
D: NTFS Pri 9,218.0 0 2 215,563,184 18,878,464
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Boot Record for drive C: (Drive: 1, Starting sector: 63, Type: NTFS)
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1. Jump: EB 52 90
2. OEM Name: NTFS
3. Bytes per Sector: 512
4. Sectors per Cluster: 8
5. Reserved Sectors: 0
6. Number of FATs: 0
7. Root Dir Entries: 0
8. Total Sectors: 0
9. Media Descriptor: 0xF8
10. Sectors per FAT: 0
11. Sectors per Track: 63 (0x3F)
12. Number of Heads: 255 (0xFF)
13. Hidden Sectors: 63 (0x3F)
14. Total Sectors (>32MB): 0 (0x0)
15. Unused: 0x80008000
16. Total NTFS Sectors: 67135571
17. MFT Start Cluster: 786432
18. MFT Mirror Start Clust: 4195973
19. Clusters per FRS: 246
20. Clusters per Index Blk: 1
21. Serial Number: 0xC0B0F4C1B0F4BF4A
22. Checksum: 0 (0x0)
23. Boot Signature: 0xAA55
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Boot Record for drive F: (Drive: 1, Starting sector: 67,135,635, Type: NTFS)
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1. Jump: EB 52 90
2. OEM Name: NTFS
3. Bytes per Sector: 512
4. Sectors per Cluster: 8
5. Reserved Sectors: 0
6. Number of FATs: 0
7. Root Dir Entries: 0
8. Total Sectors: 0
9. Media Descriptor: 0xF8
10. Sectors per FAT: 0
11. Sectors per Track: 63 (0x3F)
12. Number of Heads: 255 (0xFF)
13. Hidden Sectors: 67135635 (0x4006893)
14. Total Sectors (>32MB): 0 (0x0)
15. Unused: 0x80008000
16. Total NTFS Sectors: 148424534
17. MFT Start Cluster: 786432
18. MFT Mirror Start Clust: 9276533
19. Clusters per FRS: 246
20. Clusters per Index Blk: 1
21. Serial Number: 0x6C0625F90625C4C4
22. Checksum: 0 (0x0)
23. Boot Signature: 0xAA55
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Boot Record for drive D: (Drive: 1, Starting sector: 215,563,184, Type: NTFS)
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1. Jump: EB 52 90
2. OEM Name: NTFS
3. Bytes per Sector: 512
4. Sectors per Cluster: 8
5. Reserved Sectors: 0
6. Number of FATs: 0
7. Root Dir Entries: 0
8. Total Sectors: 0
9. Media Descriptor: 0xF8
10. Sectors per FAT: 0
11. Sectors per Track: 63 (0x3F)
12. Number of Heads: 255 (0xFF)
13. Hidden Sectors: 215563184 (0xCD93BB0)
14. Total Sectors (>32MB): 0 (0x0)
15. Unused: 0x80008000
16. Total NTFS Sectors: 18878463
17. MFT Start Cluster: 786432
18. MFT Mirror Start Clust: 1179903
19. Clusters per FRS: 246
20. Clusters per Index Blk: 1
21. Serial Number: 0x20A602E5A602BAF4
22. Checksum: 0 (0x0)
23. Boot Signature: 0xAA55
I do not believe the drive has been encrypted by HP Credential Manager. I removed Hijack.Desktop and Hijack.DisplayProperties recently but subsequent scans by multiple antivirus software has not detected any problems.
Any direction or assistance will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!