I would try the things in red in my post first. You don't really want a dual boot box anyway. Run XP in a Virtualbox? On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 11:40 PM, wrote: > > Joe, I do not know that partitioning tool so I do not know for sure it > can > > be trusted to safely shrink the ntfs partition on which your XP was > > running. What should have happened if it did the right things is that > > when you next booted XP, the XP bootloader would note the change in the > > partition size and run chkdsk to check it out and then XP would load. > > > > So here are a couple of questions: > > 1 - Did you reboot XP after resizing the partition but before installing > > kubuntu (not required but tell us so we know) > > No. I did not. After the resize, I installed kubuntu > > > 2 - When you say the 5th GRUB menu item (XP) does not work, what do you > > mean. In other words, what does and does not happen. Is there any > output > > such as error messages. or ...? > > No error messages. I just see a blinking cursor at the top left of a > black screen. > > So, I guess I'm sunk, as Lisa said. Just thought I would ask. > > Surely all of the Windows partition is still there intact since I did > chkdsk and defrag (several times) before resizing, and the defrag > process showed (graphically) that all data sectors were in less than > half the hard drive. And I made sure to resize considerably less than > half the HD size. (only about 40%). > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- (503) 754-4452 Android (623) 239-3392 Skype (623) 688-3392 Google Voice ** Safeway.com Automation Engineer