I have this exact problem. I have a windows 2003 server that I saved by puting on a compaq desktop with out doing anything about the recovery partition (E:) .
Which tool did you use to do these steps?
continuum wrote:
short summary of what I did:
copy ntldr, boot.ini, ntdetect.com from the boot partition to the large one
edit boot.ini
delete the 15 Gb partition at the start of the disk
convert the extended partition into a primary one
resize the large partition so that it fills the empty space at the beginning
rebuild mbr
set symmpy driver to start 0
run "configure machine" from Converter again
TIA