Topic: Win Xp won't boot after it's partition resized
I was going to change some things on my old HP Pavilion. It has WinXP, Mint16 and mint17.1.
I thought I could shrink the XP partition from 120G to 65G (about 30G used) before cloning or
otherwise backing it up. I used Gparted (Live CD) to do this. Now both Linux still boot but XP
hangs (blinking cursor) when trying to boot it from the grub menu.
I tried boot-repair-disk from a CD but still no Joy on XP. It put a log/results file at
http://paste.ubuntu.com/15381884/ and /15381933/.
I can boot XP from Hirens boot CD 10.6. Choice, [ Boot from Hard Drive - Windows XP (NTLDR) ] if that tells you anything.
I thought I had done this kind of thing before without incident but maybe not.
I also tried using Gparted (from mint16) to return the XP partition to it's original size, no
good, same blinking cursor.
Seems to me everything needed to boot XP is still there but Windows can't find it.
I don't know what to do next.