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I decided to merge two partitions the other day, (one that had my XP installation and the other being used as storage). After the final reboot I was unable to run Windows, just got an error about the hll.dll file being corrupted or missing. I inserted my Windows disc and noticed in the recovery console that there was an E: drive when there wasn't one before. (The two partitions I was merging were D: and F:, so I assumed the new E: drive was the merged partitions.) I'm not as computer savvy as I'd like, so I'm not sure exactly what I did, but I think I did a bootcfg /list and it asked if I wanted to search for Windows installations. I said yes, and it found one. I named it, etc. and then rebooted.
Windows came as before, although it asked me which of the two installations I wanted to run, everything was looking good, Drivemapper came up and I ran it, (although I noticed it defaulted to changing all the references to F: instead of E:, but I [possibly wrongfully] assumed it knew what it was doing. ThenBut then I went into My Computer and noticed there was still an F: and D: drive, there was no E: drive, and the D: drive was empty. The folder it was all supposed to be moved into on the new merged partition existed, but was empty is my access to it was denied anyway. So basically, the partiotions didn't merge, all it did was format the D: partition.
So I'm wondering if the information on the D: drive is really gone, or if maybe I need to change the drive letter references or something? I'm not really sure. It's not the absolute end of the world if it's been formatted, but I will bevery disappointed. Especially since it didn't even merge the partitions like it was supposed to. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Alright my My Computer folder actually shows my D: drive, (the one that was supposed to be added to the other partition in a new folder), as having 0 megabytes used and 0 megabytes available, which makes me think that maybe the files are on the E: drive that was [apparently] created, but for whatever reason is not showing up in My Computer. I'm still hopeful that I haven't lost those files completely.
Obviously the merge did not succeed, (although maybe it did and the other option I have when booting the computer is it, but it will not let me boot through that because the hal.dll file is "missing or corrupted". And apparently the drive with all my other files on it is lost somewhere, but hopefully findable. Anybody know how to access it or how to fix all this?