Disk Error 1516
> Operating Systems > Windows XP > Windows XP Hardware > Big boot problem, error 1516 Partition improperly dimounted if you can solve this you are a genius Big boot problem, error 1516 Partition improperly dimounted if you can solve this you are a genius Posted: 07-22-2003, 02:58 PM Thomas Waugh Guest Posts: n/a Show Printable Version Email this Page Post Comment I have made a very big mistake if you can solve this problem then you are a Genius, I was using power quest partition magic 8 and i was looking at my partitions on my hardrive, I was trying to create some space on the drive, and i used partition magic to delete a partition i didnt recognize. It was only a small (7-8 MB) partition and im fairly sure that ity was set to active. I am also sure that there was more than one active partition on this disk, but everything that i have read tells me that this cant be true. Now when i boot my computer up it trys to boot IDE-0 the drive but fails and comes up with the error message "Cannot find NTLDR" when i put the xp pro disk in to repair this problem it comes up with an error, so i then booted up with a copy of partition magic 8 on floppy disk to have a look at my hard drive. so when partition magic 8 was on i ran an error check. the error displayed "1516 partition improperly dismounted" Now to solve this problem it suggests to use "chkdsk" check disk however when i was running partition magic the partitions that i have on the drive were not assinged to any drive letters they all just came up as "* :" and they all had the same error 1516which means that they have been improperly dimounted, and because they are not asinged to any drive letters i cant run check disk to them to solve this problem because i cant tell check disk what to look at bacuse they are not assibged to a drive letter and i dont know how to asign drive letters to them ethier, so im stuck in a problem that i cant get out of Can anyone help? as i have data that i'd rather not lose! thanks Tom Big boot problem, error 1516 Partition improperly dimounted if you can solve this you are a genius Responses to "Big boot problem, error 1516 Partition improperly dimounted if you can solve this you are a genius" Thomas Waugh Joep Guest Posts: n/a Re: Big boot problem, error 1516 Partition improperly dimounted if you can solve this you are a genius Posted: 07-22-2003, 03:22 PM post a partinfo (refer to PM manual) error 1516 in itself is not a big deal: normally when windows has started it puts up a flag 'i am not properly dismounted'. now th
Jul 22, 2003. Thomas Waugh Guest I have made a very big mistake if you can solve this problem then you are a Genius, I was using power quest partition magic 8 and i was looking at my partitions on my hardrive, I was trying to create some space on the drive, and i used partition magic to delete a partition i didnt recognize. It was only a small (7-8 MB) partition and im fairly sure that ity was set to active. I am also sure that there was more than one active partition on this disk, but everything that i have http://www.realgeek.com/forums/big-boot-problem-error-1516-partition-improperly-dimounted-if-you-can-solve-this-you-are-a-genius-51047.html read tells me that this cant be true. Now when i boot my computer up it trys to boot IDE-0 the drive but fails and comes up with the error message "Cannot find NTLDR" when i put the xp pro disk in to repair this problem it comes up with an error, so i then booted up with a copy of partition magic 8 on floppy disk to have a look at http://www.pcreview.co.uk/threads/big-boot-problem-error-1516-partition-improperly-dimounted-if-you-can-solve-this-you-are-a-genius.319941/ my hard drive. so when partition magic 8 was on i ran an error check. the error displayed "1516 partition improperly dismounted" Now to solve this problem it suggests to use "chkdsk" check disk however when i was running partition magic the partitions that i have on the drive were not assinged to any drive letters they all just came up as "* :" and they all had the same error 1516which means that they have been improperly dimounted, and because they are not asinged to any drive letters i cant run check disk to them to solve this problem because i cant tell check disk what to look at bacuse they are not assibged to a drive letter and i dont know how to asign drive letters to them ethier, so im stuck in a problem that i cant get out of Can anyone help? as i have data that i'd rather not lose! thanks Tom Thomas Waugh, Jul 22, 2003 #1 Advertisements Joep Guest post a partinfo (refer to PM manual) error 1516 in itself is not a big deal: normally when windows has started it puts up a flag 'i am not properly dismounted'. now this flag is only lowered if you properly shut down windows, once it has cl
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