On 2/26/07, Dazed_75 <lthielster@gmail.com> wrote:
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OK, that partition seems to be hosed.  I tried to mount it to copy off a couple of files before reloading and mount gave me an error saying the ftype was wrong or the superblock is corrupt.  It suggests looking at dmesg which had 4 messages saying basicly that the inode is corrupt and suggests running CHKDSK.  Of course I can't do that either on an NTFS partition without windows :)

Looks like I wipe it and re-install Vista, Office and Ubuntu instead of playing tonight.
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That worked.  BTW, I used the LiveCD and Qtparted to remove the extra partions and reformat the NTFS one before reinstalling Vista.  Seems Vista (at least the RC1 rendition) must do something different as I suspected.  Basicly letting a linux install resize the NTFS partition corrupted something Vista is doing with the MBR or boot sequence.  Not a big surprise and it is probably something they are doing under the guise of security.  Too bad they can't figure out how to do that without breaking things.

CAUTION: Be wary of resizing Vista partions !!!  Until someone understands this I won't say you can't but I will say be sure you have a restorable image.

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