Hi John, > >Did you, possibly together with a co-worker, actually try that > >route of manually > >repairing the Windows install? If yes, did it do any good? > > Yes, I just tried that and it did work. So at the moment, I have a > working Win7/linux machine with the linux part installed via FAI. > The message the Windows repair said was that there was a problem > with the Windows startup options, asked me if I wanted to repair > them and reboot. I said I did and it rebooted. >
Is that a sort of acceptable solution to you? I'm still pretty eager to figure out what the root cause of those troubles is, but I'd be happy if at least we had a temporary solution that works out for you (and doesn't cause an awful lot of overhead). I've tried more searches on the web and all I found so far hinted at problems with resizing the disk. Which approach do you use to free up space for Linux? Does memory serve me correctly in that you don't actually touch the Windows system partition and only drop some additional partition? Pages such as http://linuxexchange.org/questions/746/resizing-with-gparted-makes-other-windows-7-partition-unusable http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/security-admin/dual-booting-linux-and-windows-7-the-0xc0000225-error/ seem to describe the very same error that you are seeing, but both of them relate it to a previous resizing attempt. Best, Michael
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