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Topic: Win 98 wont boot after resizing Partitions

Hi,

i used Gparted (LiveCD) to resize the Partitions and now it dosent boot any more.

There was a 1.5 GB Partition (C Patition) in fat16 and i rezized it to 3 GB.

Now it is listed as a fat32 Partition and Windows 98 doesent boot.

Can anyone help me?

thanks

Hanjo

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Re: Win 98 wont boot after resizing Partitions

Give details, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease !
Which is the livecd version ?
What about your hardware ?
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Larry
GParted-project Admin
Former GParted-LiveCD maintainer (2007)

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Re: Win 98 wont boot after resizing Partitions

Hi,

i use the newest Version (downloaded yesterday): GParted 0.3.1  ,  LiveCD 0.3.1-1

Here are the partitioin Data:

Festplatte: /dev/hda (37.31 GiB)

Values after second change:

Partition      Dateisystem  Size           Used         Unused          Markierungen.
/dev/hda1   fat 32            1.57 GiB    1.18 GiB    398.72 MiB     boot
/dev/hda2   extended       11.34 GiB   -               -                   Iba
/dev/hda5   fat 32            9.77 GiB    4.47 GiB     5.29 GiB
/dev/hdae   fat16             1.57 GiB                                         boot
nicht zugeteilt 24.40 GiB

Befor i started the hda1 was a fat16 system. First i changed it to 3 GB. (therefor i shrinked the hda5 and hda2)
Then it dident boot and i tryed to undo it. I changed it back to 1.57 GB and now it is still fat32 but windows still doesent boot. When switching the computer on it shows after a few seconds two rows of strange symbols.

I think it is because of the fat32 instead of fat16 ??

Is there a way to set it back to fat16 without deleting all data?

Or is there something else i can do?


Thanks for any Help

Hanjo

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Re: Win 98 wont boot after resizing Partitions

you can use TESTDISK if you think it can restore anything.
BUT first have a look at the doc !
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

Larry
GParted-project Admin
Former GParted-LiveCD maintainer (2007)

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Re: Win 98 wont boot after resizing Partitions

yep, libparted changes fat16 to fat32 during some resizes,  but i don't know exactly when or why. Also i don't see how this could affect your bootingprocess. For now it's best if you boot into DOS using a bootdisk of some sort and run 'fdisk /mbr' (iirc)