On Sunday 26 Jul 2015 15:35:15 gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > The system came with windows 7 on the whole disk 500GB. To shrink it to > 50 takes work as there are "unmovable" files in the middle (the "" are > there since you must actually moved them). Anyway I didn't try but > simply removed the big partition (I left the "dell" partition and the > windows recovery partition). I then installed linux (an error) leaving > a partition for windows.
OK, this is your problem: The Dell partition is a FAT partition, in which Dell installs some recovery utilities which we do not need for now. The Windows Recovery partition is the NTFS boot partition for the MSWindows OS, which itself resides in the (originally) 3rd large NTFS partition. In the 2nd partition you should find a ./Boot/BCD file, which is the MSWindows boot manager. When you look at it with BCDedit you will find the kernel entry which loads the OS from the 3rd partition. You will notice that the 3rd partition is specified as a UUID and this is what is causing your problem. If you change the 3rd partition either in size, or in position, you *must* obtain its new UUID and edit the BCD file with this new string, before your system is able to boot again. -- Regards, Mick
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