Hey all, great board you guys have, every one seems very knowledgeable and friendly. I just got a tr3a a month ago, and found out how to free up the sony hidden partion from these boards.
i’m wondering if anyone happens to know the deafult partition mapping for the c:\ d:\ and e:\(hidden) drives. Like what their MB size is, and possible the order or type of partition (Primary, Logical Extended)
why?
ok, this is what happened.
so half life2 came out, and i really wanted to play it online while i was over my friends. However, i did not have enough space free on my c drive for the steam install. so i decided to use partion magic 8 to merge the c:\ & e:\ drives… which halfway through dedided to crap out on me…
(i was rushing and did not creat pm boot discs, i know, i know…)
with a combinations of a win98 boot floppy and winxp cd,
i was able to delete all partion info off, and recreate a c:\ & d:\ 50%/50% formatted to ntfs. the problem happens when i restore my image (acronis) which was of the drive when it was broken up into c:\d:\e:\ on to the new larger c:\ partition, i get a windows missing hal.dll message.
i am thinking that i need to recreate all the partitions to how they were previously? but i don’t know the values so i can’t… and my tr is dead, and i’m just trying to avoid having to reinstall everything :(
thanks for any help or info you guys have, i’ve been trying to fix it for the past 48 hours…
