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From: Szakacsits S. <sz...@si...> - 2006-10-06 09:22:58
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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.html#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 |
