[NBLUG/talk] Lost Windows 2000 from Dual Boot machine

[Kyle Rankin]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 09:28:53AM -0800, Peter Lutz wrote:
> Good morning.
> 
> I was messing with gparted on a dual (actually triple) boot machine.
> I got some of the partitioning changed as I wished, but now Windoz does
> not boot.  Both Ubuntu 7.10 and Debian Testing boot and run perfectly,
> and I can mount and read the Windows files from either Linux system just
> fine.  When I try to boot Windows, the splash screen comes up just fine.
> The blue bar starts across the screen, but about half way across I get a
> blue screen saying    stop: INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE    a bunch of hex
> numbers and some suggestions for fixing things.  Suggestions are:
> Check for viruses.  That is very unlikely, as I seldom run Windows and
> don't do virus kinds of things.  Mostly I run my old GPS map programs.
> Remove new hardware.  There is none.  The system has been working fine
> for six months.
> Check HD for proper termination and configuration.  Well, yes, the
> config seems to have changed.  Termination is fine.
> Run CHKDSK /F to check for HD corruption.  How, on a broken computer?
> The box has no floppy drive, although I could put one in.
> 
> AMD64X2, 2GByte ram, 400GByte disk, difficult Nvidia card (requires a
> new module set whenever I build a new kernel).
> 
> The boot system is GRUB, which seems to be working just fine with the
> Linux systems.
> 
> My question is: is this fixable without trashing the whole system?
> Windows was the first system installed.  If I re-install windows, will
> I loose access to the Linux?
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> Peter
> -- 
> Peter Lutz AA6AV
> Meaning is homemade.
> 

Hi,

So you said you were "messing with gparted" but what exactly did you mess
with. Did you resize your Windows partition at all (specifically did you
shrink it?)

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