partition nightmares

jim ruxton cinetron at passport.ca
Fri Jul 28 06:40:54 UTC 2006


> > 
> > Thanks Rick. Do you think the fact I can't boot into Windows has
> > anything to do with lvm? My problem came about when I was trying to
> > resize my ntfs partition with Partition Magic so I could create a fat32
> > partition. Unfortunately PM crashed during the resizing process and I
> > could no longer boot Windows. Any thoughts as to what I should try to
> > figure out the culprit? I'm using GRUB as the boot loader.
> 
> That smells like the NTFS filesystem got corrupted by PM.  I think I
> see A Windows "chkdisk" in your future.  I doubt sincerely that LVM has
> or had anything to do with it.
Thanks Rick,
Success!! I downloaded a bootable CD with chkdsk on it and was able to
fix windows. Thanks everyone for your help.
cheers,
jim

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