[LUG] Destroyed laptop, can anyone help?

[Robin Cornelius <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Guys

I've just destroyed the work laptop attempting to shrink the NTFS 
partiton that was taking up the whole disk. So now windows dosn't boot 
(no bad thing in general :-) but it needs fixing  ). I used qtpartd on 
knoppix to shrink the partiton by 5 gigs and gtpartd claims it supports 
ntfs so i went for it. After rebooting i just get a "Disk read error 
occured" from bios and the HD will not boot. The recover disks that come 
with the laptop are a joke, they are just a ghost image of factory 
settings so will erase all data on the disk :-(. I have tried booting 
with a XP recovery console and have done a chkdsk, a fixboot and a 
fixmbr (which complains about a non standard mbr everytime) but no 
improvment.

Any ideas how to repair this or do you think I should proced with the 
linux install and see if grub will "sort it all out" as a new master 
boot loader?

Robin


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