Re: [LUG] Destroyed laptop, can anyone help?

[Keith Abraham <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 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

If you have a Knoppix disk then look for a file on it called "Computer 
First Aid
Using Knoppix.html (it might also be on their website). It's expressly about
rescuing data from a crashed Windows installation. It certainly helped me
sort out a friends crashed Windows machine as it's years since I last used
Windows . It earned me lots of kudos and allowed me to leave him a copy
of Knoppix to play with.

Keith


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