Kubuntu hoses Windows on HP Pavilion A810n

[Douglas Phillipson]

Greg Booth wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 July 2007 9:03:02 pm Douglas Phillipson wrote:
>>>> Not good, have you booted up the live disc and taken a look at the
>>>> partition table there to see what's up ?
>>> I used BootItNG to resize the NTFS partition.  There is a 7mb Fat32
>>> partition.  I installed Kubuntu, it booted fine but Windows would not
>>> boot.  Then I just tried to reset the MBR with BootItNG, which I have
>>> done a dozen imes before on other PC's, and it restored Windows fully,
>>> but not now.  Even the (F10) Restore System key doesn't work.  Has it
>>> now become dangerous to install Linux?
>>>
>>> Doug P
>> Adn of course you no longer get recovery CD's anymore.  I have installed
>> dozens of Kubuntu systems safely in the past, My level of confidence
>> that I would not hose someones Windows installation has now been shattered!
>>
>> Doug P
> 
> Well, you lost me at "resized ntfs partition" that's not something I've ever 
> done. I've ghosted to a file, reformatted then ghosted back to the new 
> partition, but never just resized on the fly.
> 
> Greg
> 

So I had to go buy WinXP. Arrrg!  I hate giving money to Microsoft!  I 
had to look several places for XP because some only sold Vista!  What a 
racket! I deleted  the fat32 HP partition on the HD, installed XP and 
Kubuntu.  Everything works now but I lost all my nephew's games. (It 
wasn't my computer).

Any Ideal why HP's partition scheme would not run Windows after a 
Kubuntu install?

Doug P