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On Monday 28 February 2005 1:09 pm, Robin Cornelius wrote:Sorry, i can boot to CD still so koppix etc boots but if I specifcy hard disk as boot device it flakes
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?
Done this now and it gets worse!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.
hda: IC25N040ATMR04-0 ATA DISK drive Unable to handle kenel paging request at virtual address cc87109f
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