Shoutbox

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Originally posted by blessedguy
Why don't you try copying the files from "Windows XP" to that unallocated space in a Live CD and reinstalling XP [or 7] there?

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No need, really. It was just a booting issue.

With much help from TReKiE, we managed to fix it.

Had to convert the partition from logical to physical using GParted, then Windows would boot.

After that I had problems with drive letters, as Cookie predicted. It'd given it a new letter, so the Windows profile was broken. Had to mess around with the registry after Windows wouldn't let me change the letter.

Somehow got there in the end.

Don't think I'll be going near partitions for a while.

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Originally posted by ICQ
just a suggestion, if you wanna use Ubuntu, why not just download Windows VirtualBox an install it in there

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Yeah I know, but that one I had was just installed in Windows, which then creates a partition for it I take it. Usually use it for recovery, so having it in VirtualBox would be no use.

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Originally posted by Chris4
After that I had problems with drive letters, as Cookie predicted. It'd given it a new letter, so the Windows profile was broken. Had to mess around with the registry after Windows wouldn't let me change the letter.

Somehow got there in the end.

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PS: Changing the OS drive letter is far from enough though (in case you only did that).

Make also sure you check every directory and drive setting and option of every program (sounds like a tedious task... and it unfortunatly is ). This also includes shortcut links on your hard disk, etc. Even associated icon settings and such can be broken because of changed drive letters.

Thanks for the concern, but I'm pretty sure everything is working. Here's why...

It has always been set as G:\, but when I started using the Windows 7 recovery options it decided to change the letter to D:\ (even though everything still pointed towards G:\). When I finally got Windows to boot, I tried to login to my user profile, but instead it logged me into a temporary profile because it, along with all programs, was pointing towards G:\ which "didn't exist".



So once I managed to change it from D:\ back to G:\ (not sure how exactly, as you can't do it through Linux and Windows was giving me an error, but got there somehow) I was able to login to my user profile and all worked fine.

Ah... sounds then...

I thought you changed it to C:\ or something....