[Bug 237585] Re: gparted makes MBR unreadable by win2008

2010-06-23 Thread Phillip Susi
Since nobody else has ever duplicated the problem and you can not reproduce it either, and hardy is reaching end of life, this report does not seem to have any value, so I am closing it. Feel free to reopen it if it is ever seen again and more information can be gathered. ** Changed in: gparted

[Bug 237585] Re: gparted makes MBR unreadable by win2008

2010-03-19 Thread Martin Olsson
I know we had one of those "Repair Windows installation" items in the network boot menu, however I can't remember if I ran it before trying "dd" or not (maybe I did but in that case it didn't fix the problem). I'm sorry, I can't remember for sure. As such, I suppose the value of this bug report is

[Bug 237585] Re: gparted makes MBR unreadable by win2008

2010-03-18 Thread Jan Claeys
Some older versions of GParted (I can look up the version when it was fixed if useful) would re-align the start of partitions on a 1 MiB boundary when resizing them (which is useful for better performance). I know the bootloader of Vista & Windows 7 have problems with that, so I guess the same is

[Bug 237585] Re: gparted makes MBR unreadable by win2008

2010-03-17 Thread Martin Olsson
I dunno, it was a regular clean Windows Server 2008 install (it never asks about static vs dynamic partition, what is that?). I guess it was at the start of the drive by default and I don't remember if I moved it but I don't think so. Also note that I no longer have access to any Windows machines

[Bug 237585] Re: gparted makes MBR unreadable by win2008

2010-03-16 Thread AJenbo
Did you move your NTFS partision to the beginning of the drive (windows usualy leaves a bit of space at the beginning). Was the NTFS a static or dynamic partision? -- gparted makes MBR unreadable by win2008 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/237585 You received this bug notification because you are