Re: windows won't boot anymore after installation of debian
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:24:33 +0200
Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A friend of mine tried to resize his windows partition using partition magic
> and then proceeded to install fedora (don't know the version but with kernel
> 2.6.5) which complained about some problem and after the installation when grub
> came up it showed an unknown os and would boot it, booted fine into fedora.
>
> I later dumped fedora and installed debian (testing from the netinst cd) for
> him, which he is rather happy with, although he still needs his windows
> partition for the moment for some word documents.
>
> I tried booting windows from the debian grub (which correctly recognized it as
> window). For the first time it started booting (I killed it that time), and
> later on it just got stuck when booting widows after showing
>
> chainloader +1
>
> I tried downloading ntfsprogs and running ntfsfix and also made sure that it is
> marked as bootable. The partition is still there and mountable.
>
> any Idea what went wrong with the installation and how to fix it?
>
> Thanks
>
>
Have you tried reinstalling GRUB? Sounds like the GRUB install when installing Fedora was messed up someway or the other. Reinstall GRUB and it should be fine.
Good Luck,
Amit
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