Serious Data Loss -- Live CD Installer

[Paul Andreassen]

On Fri, 19 May 2006 01:37 pm, Billy Charlton wrote:
> So I just attempted installing Dapper Beta 2 on my partner's PC.  Pretty
> normal HP PC with Windows XP.
>
> - Used Dapper Beta 2 - live CD
> - GUI Installer
> - Tried to resize /dev/hda1 to make room for a fresh install of Dapper
> - Clicked "next" after dragging resizer widget on partition.  The
> installer brought up a dialog box "Resizing Partition" which was
> immediately followed by dialog "Resizing Failed".  Now drive shows two
> partitions, both type "unknown", first partition size was original size
> - 1, 2nd partition size 1.
>
> Now machine won't boot Windows XP.  I've tried using fdisk from live cd
> to set partition type to HPFS/NTFS, resetting size to full disk size,
> but still says unbootable.
>
> a) Am I now in the doghouse, having hosed the PC?
> b) Is there any way to get XP back?
> c) Is there a known bug in the Live CD installer for resizing NTFS, or
> is this something new?
>
> Thanks... happy to provide a lot more info, please let me know what else
> is needed.  Hopefully my loss can help prevent this happening to other
> users?
>
> Cheers
> Billy

Maybe something on http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html will 
help.

Paul
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