Resize partition solution -and- problem.

[Lisa Kachold]

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, <joe at actionline.com> 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%).
>
>
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