Making XP boot again...

[Please CC me, I'm not on the list. Thanks!]

Hi,

I'm  currently volunteering at a college in Ghana to
introduce Linux. I
have setup up automatic network installation, and so far
this works. But
I have a problem with the existing windows installation on
the computers
in one classroom: I resize the existing windows partition
using
ntfsresize, but afterwards, windows won't boot any more.

I can access the partition from Linux, I can start the
recovery console
of the Windows CD, but neither fixboot, fixmbr or changing
the
partitioning helps in any way: Whenever I boot windows
(either using the
windows MBR, or using grub) it just hangs there. 

I would be very thankful for a quick hint, as this
jeopardizes my whole
project here -- after all, what good is the automatic Linux
installation
if you have to manually re-install windows afterwards?

Thanks!
Joachim


-- 
Joachim "nomeata" Breitner
  mail: mailjoachim-breitner.de | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Key:
4743206C
  JID: joachimbreitneramessage.de | http://www.joachim-br
eitner.de/
  Debian Developer: nomeatadebian.org

------------------------------------------------------------
-------------
Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT
Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the
chance to share your
opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys
-- and earn cash
http://www.techsay.com/default.
php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV
_______________________________________________
Linux-NTFS-User mailing list
Linux-NTFS-Userlists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-n
tfs-user

On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Joachim Breitner wrote:

> I'm  currently volunteering at a college in Ghana to
introduce Linux. I
> have setup up automatic network installation, and so
far this works. But
> I have a problem with the existing windows installation
on the computers
> in one classroom: I resize the existing windows
partition using
> ntfsresize, but afterwards, windows won't boot any
more.

Unfortunately this is a well known problem with
__partitioners__, not with
ntfsresize (ntfsresize is independent of the storage type by
design to
promote its general use). Please see here more (as the
ntfsresize author, 
I maintain it):

	http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.h
tml#troubleshoot
 
> I can access the partition from Linux, I can start the
recovery console
> of the Windows CD, but neither fixboot, fixmbr or
changing the

Neither fixboot, nor fixmbr can fix broken partition tables.
Only a
partitoner could like parted, fdisk, cfdisk. Unfortunately
their partition
table generation is very random and sometimes broken. You
must set the
geometry in the partition table in the way the Windows boot
process expects
it to be, that is the legacy BIOS values (you can get it via
EDD). 

You may check out the Unattended project for more who are
doing similar
things as you and had the same problem.

	Szaka


------------------------------------------------------------
-------------
Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT
Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the
chance to share your
opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys
-- and earn cash
http://www.techsay.com/default.
php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV
_______________________________________________
Linux-NTFS-User mailing list
Linux-NTFS-Userlists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-n
tfs-user