Re: cannot boot XP after shrinking partition

[Andrew Clausen]

On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 09:11:40PM -0700, Alex Stovboun wrote:
> Using parted-1.6.12-2 I shrank my windows partition
> (/dev/hda1) to make some space for Fedora. After that
> I cannot boot windows XP (it just hangs forewer right
> after the GRUB's boot command). Also, when trying to
> mount /dev/hda1 in linux, this error msg shows up:
> 
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
> /dev/hda1, or too many mounted file systems

Ouch.  What does Parted's check command say?

What did you type to resize the partition?  Was the partition mounted?
(Hopefully Parted doesn't have any problems left checking this...)

Thanks,
Andrew