Replying to myself for the record.
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Philip Charles wrote:
> I am no expert on NTFS and have no ambition to be so. But is seems to me
> that the filesystem and the partitions are two separate entities with
> filesystem size=x sitting on partition size=y where x < y. I wonder what
> would happen if the partition size was reduced without reference to the
> filesystem size?
I have just done this and the XP system is fscked. It will not boot even
in safe mode. The error is unmountable_boot_volume. So it seems that my
hunch above is correct.
Phil.
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