Kubuntu hoses Windows on HP Pavilion A810n

Greg Booth bootgr at gmail.com
Wed Aug 1 01:04:58 UTC 2007


On 7/31/07, Douglas Phillipson <douglas at intermind.net> wrote:
>
> Greg Booth wrote:
> > On Tuesday 31 July 2007 5:28:13 pm Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> >> After installing 7.04 on this desktop in a dual boot configuration,
> >> Windows (XP Home) no longer boots.  There appears to be a small
> recovery
> >> partition on the disk.  I made /, swap and home paritions after
> >> shrinking the original NTFS partition.  Kubuntu works fine but Windows
> >> just won't boot.  I can see the windows xp logo for a fraction of a
> >> second, then a blank screen. I've installed many dual boot systems and
> >> never run into this problem before.  Any suggestions are appreciated.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Doug P
> >
> > Is the windows partition a basic NTFS partition or is it the more
> advanced
> > dynamic volume ? If it's dynamic I think you're in trouble, it really
> doesn't
> > like sharing space.
> >
> > Greg
>
> I believe it is jut NTFS.
>
> Doug P
>

Not good, have you booted up the live disc and taken a look at the partition
table there to see what's up ?
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