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On Monday 28 February 2005 1:09 pm, Robin Cornelius wrote:
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 ntfs so i went for it. After rebooting i just get a "Disk read error occured" from bios and the HD will not boot.
When booting from CD with CD as the first boot option, why would the BIOS be looking for a disk read? Won't Knoppix start if you set the BIOS to only look to the CD drive for the boot image?
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
I'd be tempted to put a Debian installer CD in the drive and see if LILO or Grub can fix it. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.dcglug.org.uk/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/isbnsearch/ http://www.neil.williamsleesmill.me.uk/ http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x8801094A28BCB3E3
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