>On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Daniel Dalton <d.dal...@iinet.net.au>wrote:
> >Hello everyone, > > > >I've got myself into quite a bit of trouble. > > > >Problem: My system no longer can boot windows and if I try booting > >debian it gives errors regarding the root file system. > > > >Here is what I did: > > > >I booted windows for the first time with no problems, so then booted a > >livecd off my usb drive and did resizing with gparted. > > > >I resized the sda1 partition, the one in which windows resides on. I > >think it may have said resize and move, this may be where the problem > >lies. I'm totally blind so going off what a sighted person tells > >me. Apparently it said something like resize and move. > > [snip] Hi Daniel. As long as your c: drive is still in tact, you can boot the machine from a Windows installation cd (Dell Windows XP cd's work well as an example). After Windows loads it's files and you are presented with a blue screen with typically 3 options, at the bottom of the screen is a message like "R=Repair". After pressing "R", Windows will scan your hard drive for any existing installations. After that you'll get to a black screen with white text listing existing installations. If that works, select that installation at the prompt, then run two commands: "fixmbr" and "fixboot c:". This will rebuild the MBR and make your c: drive bootable. Something like this ought to work for you as long as your Windows installation is still in tact. Also cfdisk from a live Ubuntu CD has saved me in the past by recreating the partition table. Good luck, Mark
