Partition/Booting Problem
Problem:
Partition 1: - When I try to boot from it, gives me an error that windows did not start correctly. So it brings me to the screen where it asks me if I want to boot from safe mode, safe made with command prompt, safe mode with networking, last known good configuration or normally. After I click on one ( the result is the same for any option I click on), then screen changes, and then just reboots. This goes on forever until I click on a different partition to load.
Partiton 2: - Loads fine, shows the windows xp pro boot screen, but then it goes to the blue screen where its just about to show your desktop, and freezes there forever. Well, dosn't exactly freeze because I can still move the curser.
Story: - Yesterday afternoon I was doing a little spring cleaning on my computer, and decided to delete an old partition that I didn't really use anymore. So I loaded up partition magic, clicked to delete it, rebooted. After it was deleted, the computer wouldn't load past "verifying dmi pool data" or something like that, so I googled that, and discovered it was a little boot.ini problem, So I fixed the .ini, and did a fixmbr, which fixed that problem.
Now is when my current problem started, after booting just after fixing my previous problem, it showed both partitions to boot from, tried both, neither would load. So I popped in my xp disc, went to the recovery section, did a chkdsk /r on both partitons. Rebooted, tried, same problem. So I tried reinstalling xp (the recovery option, not fresh install) on both. It worked for partition 2 somewhat(read above), but partition 1 kept just rebooting after the error. So I figured why not just reinstall xp on the same partition I just deleted it from. So I just did, and not partition 2 works fine, but 1 is giving me the same problem.
Specs - Windows XP Pro SP1 on all 3 partitions.
Partition Magic for my partitioning needs
Question: Anyone happen to know what would cause the partition to just reboot before even showing the bootscreen? And why it would keep doing it even after reinstalling windows.
Also - Partition 1 is where my computer is reading from the boot.ini, and all of partition 1's files seem to be accessible from the other two.
If I've forgotten any information, or if i've been unclear in any aspect of this, respond with your questions/comments and i'll reply asap. Thanks in advance for any help.
PS - If anyone knows the propper way to delete a partition without the boot files becomming corrupt, feel free to respond with that too. I have a feeling just clicking to delete in partition magic and then rebooting may be a bit off from the propper way.