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Re: Install windows with debian problem



On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Thiago Santos Faria Xavier Teixeira wrote:

i already tried to use a live cd (ubuntu) and acess my data to move them to
the
another media, but the NTFS partition cannot be mounted e exhibit a lot of
erros...
so i don´t know what to do...

Well, I think that this means that Partition Magic hosed up the NTFS filesystem so that it is unusable. Did you try to use the repair option of a WinXP CD to fix it? It was suggested previously by someone as perhaps the only way to "possibly" fix the WinXP partition. If that doesn't work, then I think you are at the point of reinstalling Windows.

For your information, with the new Debian installer for etch, one can resize an NTFS partition during the Debian install. I believe that this is a new feature for the etch installer, I don't think it was true for previous versions. I was a little skeptical about it working correctly, but I've installed 3 or 4 newer laptops recently with etch and used it to resize the WinXP partition rather than use Partition Magic.


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