Re: eeepc booting troubles

>On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Daniel Dalton <d.dalton@iinet.net.au> wrote:

>Hello everyone,
>
>I've got myself into quite a bit of trouble.
>
>Problem: My system no longer can boot windows and if I try booting
>debian it gives errors regarding the root file system.
>
>Here is what I did:
>
>I booted windows for the first time with no problems, so then booted a
>livecd off my usb drive and did resizing with gparted.
>
>I resized the sda1 partition, the one in which windows resides on. I
>think it may have said resize and move, this may be where the problem
>lies. I'm totally blind so going off what a sighted person tells
>me. Apparently it said something like resize and move.

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Hi Daniel. As long as your c: drive is still in tact, you can boot the machine from a Windows installation cd (Dell Windows XP cd's work well as an example). After Windows loads it's files and you are presented with a blue screen with typically 3 options, at the bottom of the screen is a message like "R=Repair". After pressing "R", Windows will scan your hard drive for any existing installations. After that you'll get to a black screen with white text listing existing installations. If that works, select that installation at the prompt, then run two commands: "fixmbr" and "fixboot c:". This will rebuild the MBR and make your c: drive bootable.

Something like this ought to work for you as long as your Windows installation is still in tact.

Also cfdisk from a live Ubuntu CD has saved me in the past by recreating the partition table.

Good luck,
Mark