On Saturday 02 Apr 2011, StarLion wrote: > Now, as I understand it, using GParted to resized a Win7 partition > causes it to fail to boot. So firstly, how exactly does one get around > this safely, without having to reinstall Windows itself? > Secondly, can legacy GRUB chainload Windows 7, or do I have to put up > with the evils of GRUB2?
According to this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1261173&page=3, the problem is caused by Microsof'ts loopy tendency to spatter important files all over the disc, rather than populate from the beginning. The guy in that thread had actually used GParted and ended up with the problem, but if you read all three pages, you'll see that there appears to be a work-round for GParted and a solution, even when it's happened. It may well be that later versions of GParted have solved this anyway; this thread dates from 2009. I'd still do a good backup, just in case, though -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
