Topic: [SOLVED] Disk resize failed, now Windows won't boot
Hello,
I am running out of disk space, so I decided to resize Windows 7 on my first hard drive, so I could add another ext4 partition to put data on.
However, gparted threw an error during the resize, and left with me a un-bootable Windows 7 partition.
Windows 7 gets up to about where the login screen appears, but then BSODs and reboots.
Unfortunately, the bsod is so fast, that I cannot see any details.
Windows 7 recovery mode cannot fix the issue.
When I try to repair the disk in gparted I get this error:
ERROR: Current NTFS volume size is bigger than the device size!
Corrupt partition table or incorrect device partitioning?
The original resize failed with error message:
"
read 573282767 sectors using a blocksize of 16384 sectors 00:01:26 ( ERROR )
8952271 of 573282767 read
Error while reading block at sector 9609679
"
fdisk -l:
ASUSTW mnt # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000b6250
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 35726 286968071 7 HPFS/NTFS
... (rest of drives)
As I have seen other posts suggest that some information from the MBR and NTFS info are needed, I went ahead and captured the information.
# dd if=/dev/sda of=sda-devastator.mbr bs=512 count=1
# dd if=/dev/sda of=sda1-devastator.pbr bs=512 count=1 skip=16065
The files can be downloaded from http://localcoast.net/sda-files.zip
Edit: This issue has now been solved.
I figured the time to resolve the issue would be longer than restoring my disks, and sure enough, it was.
I guess I will have to find a different way to resize the NTFS partition, other than gparted.