I wanted to shrink a Windows-XP partition under a dual boot setup (Kubuntu
12.10), in order to install a different Linux and have more space for it on the
harddrive. So I resized it via ntfsresize -b -s 60GB (original size was 90GB).
Kubuntu's GRUB booted Windows correctly. Then I deleted the NTFS-partition with
fdisk and recreated in its place a smaller one (size 61GB, a little bigger than
the newly shrunk file system). Unfortunately I did not pay attention to the
starting point of the original Windows partition, and had it start on the
default value fdisk assumes, that is 2048.
All of a sudden, Kubuntu's GRUB told me that no partition was found, I had
deleted the Linux partitions behind Windows in the meantime, as Siduction's
installer (I did not want Ubuntu stuff anymore) does not feature a working,
easy to use partioning tool like gparted. Somehow the installed GRUB barely
understood (that is, it understood some but not all) GRUB2 and GRUB commands
when it dropped to grub shell on bootup. It saw the NTFS-partition, but I could
not make it boot it.
ls & set root=(hdX,Y) worked
drivemap -s (hd0) ${root} didn't
so I was stuck
Then I installed Siduction and Fuduntu on the free disk space. Both installed
their respective GRUB into the MBR of the partition, but neither of them
detected a Windows OS. Right now I can choose between Siduction and Fuduntu.
The command os-prober wasn't successful either. I cannot mount (Running Fuduntu
or Siduction) the partition (/dev/sda1), for I'm told, that it doesn't contain
a valid NTFS file system.
Does somebody know how to fix that? Do I have to reinstall Windows?
Pascal
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