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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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