Re: windows fails to boot on toshiba laptop after 10.0 install

From: Amnon Feiner (none_at_none.com)
Date: 11/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:36:24 GMT

Dave wrote:

> SuSE 10.0 installed as dual boot on a Toshiba satellite A60 laptop which
> previously had XP on a single ntfs partition.
>
> Windows will no longer start, it gives:
> a disk error occurred
> Press crtl-alt-del to restart
>
> when selected from the grub menu. Linux can mount read the Windoze
> partition fine.
>
> The only hint of something amiss is that sfdisk -V says:
> partition 1 does not end on a cylinder boundary
>
> We have tried moving the partition boundary in Yast and with fdisk
> (/dev/hda2 is swap), but this has not got rid of the error.
>
> I'm thinking it is either a version of the 9.1 geometry issue, or possibly
> a hardware problem (i.e. a bad block on the disk that an essential windows
> file like ntldr has been moved onto when the ntfs partition was shrunk).
>
> We are specifiying the count in cylinders to fdisk but this is not getting
> the sfdisk -V warning to clear. I'm not sure if it is relevant as I doubt
> that XP cares about cylinder boundaries but it would be nice to get rid of
> it to clear that as a possibility.
>
> Any ideas?
It sounds like you will have to fix your windows boot partition and then
re-install the linux boot loader.
To fix the boot partiton
Insert windows cd and boot to the cd
select repair
once in the repair console, type
fixboot and Y
fix mbr abd Y
then fix the Linux boot loader using the Linux CD. 

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Amnon Feiner
http://www.woodcontour.com
Solid Wood and Stone PC Peripherals

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