partition headaches

[jim ruxton]

> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 04:53:54PM -0400, jim ruxton wrote:
> > Thank you everyone for the helping out with this. Lennart had originally
> > asked what I was doing with Partition Magic when things went astray. I
> > was shrinking my Windows partition so I could create another partition
> > that was FAT32 for sharing between Windows and Linux. I never got to the
> > stage of making the FAT32 partition. It was during resizing that PM
> > crashed after which I could no longer boot windows. With respect to the
> > partition order. It has been this way for a long time and booted
> > successfully via GRUB into either Windows or Linux. So I don't think I
> > need to change this but I do have to do something to get Windows back.
> > Mel, I used GNUparted a few days ago to convert an NTFS portable drive
> > to FAT32 and it worked well. So what should I try if the partition order
> > doesn't seem to be the culprit? Thanks again for the help.
> 
> Can partition magic resume the operation it was on?  I don't actually
> know what happens if partition magic crashes (I have never seen it
> happen).
> 
> Can you recover the filesystem by running chkdsk from the windows
> recovery console (from booting the install cd and hitting F6 or
> something)?  I have recovered corrupt NTFS systems that wouldn't boot
> with that method in the past.

Success!! I downloaded a bootable CD with chkdsk on it and was able to
fix windows. Thanks everyone for your help.
cheers,
jim

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