On Apr 7, 2011, at 1:34 PM, abr...@peak.org wrote: > Does anybody know what MS has done to make their system so > easy to corrupt if we let Linux resize it's installed partition?
In my experience, the boot loader and the first couple of files loaded for Windows are very very fragile. Moving them from their place in the drive boot record and at the beginning of the partition can make the system break. There may be other things going on too. I have resized NTFS partitions with Partition Magic and PartED, but it always requires rebooting and letting Windows scandisk fix what it thinks is corruptions. That's actually what makes the installation I outlined work well. Windows never knows it's not the only OS on the system. As far as the boot loader knows, it's being called as it should be. The difference being grub or lilo (or your bootloader of choice) call the windows loader, rather than the BIOS directly calling it. Russell Johnson r...@dimstar.net _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
