Boot problems after merging C and D drive

[dstubbornkanav]

My hard disk was divided in 7 partitions
named C, D, E, F, G, H, I.... Partition C
had windows 8 installed and partition D
had windows 7 installed...
1 week back, i merged partition C and D
using EaseUS partition manager....It had
some problem but after restart i was
able to boot into windows 8 and the two
drivers were merged...However there
was a problem.. System was taking too
much time on a blank screen (approx. 5
mins) before loading boot screen of
windows 8...

I thought of doing a clean installation of
windows 8...So i inserted my Windows 8
DVD and started the boot process..But I
was unable to install..It was showing
some error (don't rembr exactly what
error was)...I tried again and again bt
was facing the same error..

I resplitted my drive C into two
partitions (as they were before) and this
time the error was gone and I was able
to format and install windows 8...

I installed motherboard drivers, but now
there were 2 problems..The system was
not shutting down..So in order to turn it
off, i had to turn off the UPS....and i
was unable to copy some files from
drive C to any other drive..It was
showing cyclic redundancy error....

Today morning i turned up my PC and it
showed "attempting to repair"...After
few minute, it showed windows unable
to repair and i should repair it
manually..I tried to manually repair it by booting windows 8 dvd
but faced same problem....attempting to repair and repair
failed..


this is hdd map: ( Partition 2 and partition 3 were named as C and D respectively...Dont know why it's now showing them as J and K..These are the two partitions which i had merged and then resplitted.)


name.-----size-------type


Cartition 1-----350 mb---system
Jartition 2-----29.3 gb---primary
Kartition 3-----20.4 gb---primary
Dartition 4-----5.7 gb-----logical
Eartition 5-----5.7 gb-----logical
Fartition 6-----38.4 gb---- "
Gartition 7-----20 gb------ "
Hartition 8-----29.3 gb--- "

Letter I is assigned to my connected.pendrive



Now i m frustrated.....This all started
when i merged and resplitted drive C and
D.what to do now?

 

[JustATest]

Follow these instructions to do a clean install again and make sure you delete all existing partitions as part of step 7:

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2299-clean-install-windows-8-a.html

BTW, The "not shutting down" is a clear sign that you installation did not go smoothly so do not partition the drive yourself. This time let the installer do it for you. Good luck.

 

[XweAponX]

Good Lord that's a lot of partitions, and you had Primary and Logical partitions in there all mixed up. It could be that when you merged the partitions, you deleted the partition Windows was using as Boot. Sometimes you can fix this by booting to the install disk, going into the command prompt and running Bootrec /Fixmbr and then Bootrec /Scanos. After that, you should get a boot menu again.