Dual Boot Machine Hangs on XP Welcome Screen After Using GParted

Hello edge,
three items first :

1. Which Operating System was installed first, before you created your dual boot environment, Vista or XP ?

2. Would you please tell the version of "GParted", you used ?

3. Give us the print-out of
fdisk -lu
(Use "GParted", open "Terminal" window, type above commandline and press [Enter])
This shows current partitioning of your harddisk.

Regards
cmdr

Hello eastmaels,

Ubuntu uses "Grub" as bootmanager. "Grub" starts "XP" as well. "NTLDR" and its dependencies seem to start ... but are not able to complete their work. This means, that access to the filesystem on sda2 is possible. Otherwise you would have seen nothing but a silent blinking cursor or a black screen. Furthermore, you did not see a BSOD/ Stop fault. "XP" keeps in its registry as well as in its "pagefile.sys" references to the partitioning values of the storage media, it works with. If you resize or move a partition, "XP" does no more recognize the drive, since it has the same DriveID, but other partitioning data. Microsoft thinks, you are doing something illegal and halts the system. To prevent this behaviour, you should have deleted registry key "MountedDevices" and file "pagefile.sys" BEFORE you resized. Now it's too late for the registry, but not for "pagefile.sys". Just rename it, do not yet delete it. Try to boot again; maybe it works now. If it fails, the next step (a new VolumeID) is complex, since Ubuntu also relies on VolumeID. To change the VolumeID, you need latest "GParted Live CD" with "MC_HxEd".  "Grub" does NOT depend on VolumeID,  so that you can use it  to start "XP". Just delete "MountedDevices" in registry, restore the former VolumeID and reboot "XP" successfully. Not until then you can use Ubuntu again, i.e you need an intermediate alternative internet access, if you have problems. Maybe Ubuntu Live CD does the job.

Regards
cmdr

Good day cmdr,

I'd like to get your input first before executing:
> Just delete "MountedDevices" in registry, restore the former VolumeID and reboot "XP" successfully.

Here's what I plan to do:
Step0. Search for Former VolumeID
Since I don't have any idea as to what my former VolumeID was, I looked at my windows registry using chntpw.
-> I remember that WinXP was installed in "F:" , so here's the extracted info (Appendix1).
Q1: Will I be able to use the info I took here?

Step1. Delete "MountedDevices" using:
I tried to look for ways to delete and here's what I was able to gather:

chntpw <PATH-TO-WINDOWS>/system32/config/system
ls
cd MountedDevices
ls
delallv
q

Step2. Restore the former VolumeID
These most likely are dumb questions, but:
Q2: Will the "former volumeID" indicated here be acquired from the info I got in Step 0?
Q3: I guess this is where "MC_HxEd" comes in to play?
How do I restore? <-- question to self

3. Reboot XP Successfully
(Hopefully I will be able to reach this)

Appendix1

offs        size      type   value name                    [value if type DWORD]
[16b774]    236  REG_BINARY        <\??\Volume{56377ec1-e736-11dc-9a21-806d6172696f}>
[16b8ac]    236  REG_BINARY        <\DosDevices\D:>
[16b9d4]     12  REG_BINARY        <\??\Volume{56377ec3-e736-11dc-9a21-806d6172696f}>
[16ba2c]     12  REG_BINARY        <\DosDevices\C:>
[16ba7c]     12  REG_BINARY        <\??\Volume{56377ec4-e736-11dc-9a21-806d6172696f}>
[16bac4]    212  REG_BINARY        <\DosDevices\E:>
[16bb1c]     12  REG_BINARY        <\??\Volume{56377ec5-e736-11dc-9a21-806d6172696f}>
[16bb64]     12  REG_BINARY        <\DosDevices\F:>
[3adfb4]     12  REG_BINARY        <\??\Volume{0b6fc4a0-e7a7-11dc-88ce-000d602cc2c5}>
[3aec9c]     12  REG_BINARY        <\??\Volume{0b6fc4a1-e7a7-11dc-88ce-000d602cc2c5}>
[3c6c1c]    162  REG_BINARY        <\??\Volume{2490c706-e802-11dc-88d1-000d602cc2c5}>
[4236f4]    160  REG_BINARY        <\??\Volume{c0d529a0-02ea-11dd-88f1-00042390e408}>
[444804]    162  REG_BINARY        <\??\Volume{e3dc7ca0-19bf-11dd-8900-000d602cc2c5}>
[44dcd4]    158  REG_BINARY        <\??\Volume{56f8388d-25bb-11dd-8908-00042390e408}>
[44243c]    162  REG_BINARY        <\??\Volume{54215d67-4a32-11dd-8919-00042390e408}>
[4494fc]    162  REG_BINARY        <\??\Volume{54215d72-4a32-11dd-8919-00042390e408}>
[4410cc]    162  REG_BINARY        <\??\Volume{42c4ce41-51ff-11dd-8920-00042390e408}>
[4876ec]    162  REG_BINARY        <\??\Volume{42c4ce42-51ff-11dd-8920-00042390e408}>
[588d54]    162  REG_BINARY        <\??\Volume{eaa95720-8f68-11dd-893a-00042390e408}>
[5a67a4]    162  REG_BINARY        <\??\Volume{1aab9db0-c07f-11dd-894d-00042390e408}>
[5b3044]    214  REG_BINARY        <\??\Volume{1aab9db1-c07f-11dd-894d-00042390e408}>
[63d9a4]    212  REG_BINARY        <\??\Volume{b266ab40-c1a2-11dd-8951-00042390e408}>
[64c724]    162  REG_BINARY        <\??\Volume{5198f652-c90a-11dd-895e-00042390e408}>
[5b16bc]     12  REG_BINARY        <\DosDevices\H:>

Good day cmdr,

Just want to say thanks for your time and help up to this time. Do appreciate it.
I think I can already follow the steps you gave.

Will execute the steps this evening and inform you of the results, or post should there be roadblocks.

Will keep you posted.

Thanks!
East