Nice free “Windows” partition manager

[Abuilder]

Miles
BartPE let you build a windows boot CD but it's for Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 only.

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

[MilesAhead]

No I mean like the old Linux they would let you create a boot floppy that pointed into the Linux installed on your HD. If the boot sector got hosed you just booted the floppy and it loaded the Linux off the HD. Once running Linux off the HD you could just reinstall your boot loader or fix whatever. Windows hasn't figured out how to do the same trick.

[blutach]

When I started having problems with my drive I did what I suggested to you, use fixmbr. And damn did it make a mess out of my system. I went from 2 partitions of almost equal size to 5 of random size and seen as unknown partition type. So it’s probably a good thing you didn’t use it.

The warning was just too much for me to push the button!

Firey's PC is working just fine now - albeit we know there's a few bad sectors. Still, it's just for giggles and sh*ts, so nothing's lost if one day it goes down (cept for Firey's emails).

[UncasMS]

I am a long time fan of ERD COMMANDER

booting up corrupted systems, circumventing forgotten login passwords, applying system restores, accessing files in order to copy them to different places and much more is what you get

i strongly recommend taking a closer look at it

[Chewy]

It's got a new name and a 30 day free trial

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5D600369-0554-4595-8AB4-C34B2860E087&displaylang=en