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Name: gort
Date: December 26, 2007 at 18:28:34 Pacific
OS: Ubuntu 7.10 64 bit
CPU/Ram: duo
Product: hp
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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?



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Name: jefro
Date: December 26, 2007 at 20:16:40 Pacific
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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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