Kubuntu hoses Windows on HP Pavilion A810n

[O. Sinclair]

Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> 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?
Well, the FAT32 part was likely HPs System Restore and if you could have 
booted into that you would have been able to save the day (minus the 
games probably). Don't know what happened though, I have just as you 
done this a few times without any problems whatsoever. IF you had had a 
Windows CD you could have done a "Repair Installation" from that. 
Otherwise I think if you would have posted your menu.lst from /boot/grub 
  (if you now used Grub to boot) then maybe someone could have given advice.

Too late but could be good pointers for the future,
Sinclair