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I have a BIG problem, so i have a laptop, i had it set up so i was running windows on the first hard drive and linux on the second, i hardly ever used linux and so after i had run out of room on my windows hard drive i decided to remove linux, i repartitioned the linux drive and deleted all the partitions created by linux. I hibernated windows, now whenever i turn my computer on it will not load any OS, it just says "loading GRUB, ERROR 17" and stops. So now unless i run linux directly off the disk i used to install it, my computer is completly useless.
My linux that i load off the disk will not mount any of my hard drives because windows was hibernated and it cannot be safely mounted. I have valuable information on the hard drive which formerly had linux on it, the windows hard drive is nearly full, one way i believe would fix this problem is to reinstall linux, however, i would like to resize my partition (rather than delete that partition) so i do not loose the information on the hard drive which formerly had linux. None of the partition utilities included with linux could resize the partition. Does anybody know how i can get my computer to load windows, or maybe resize my second hard drive's partition so that i may reinstall linux in an attempt at loading a boot loader?

Build a barts or ubcd4win disk.
I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you peanut.

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