1 Topic by pedrotaves (edited by pedrotaves 2008-06-24 02:18:02)

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Topic: Cannot Boot After Gparted

I recently used gparted to make a an earlier partition be unallocated space. I was going to merge it with my original vista partition, but couldnt figure out how to do it in gparted. I made the space unallocated and tried to reboot. When i tried to boot my computer, two beeps rang and it said "f1 to continue, f2 to run setup". F1 didn't respond, and i wasn't able to proceed in the boot. I decided to run gparted to see if the computer was recognizing my harddrive, and saw that an error was listed on my main c-drive partition. It said:

"couldn't mount device 'dev/dev/sda2': input output error
ntfsresize v1.13.1(libntfs 9:0:0) Error(5): Opening 'dev/sda2' as NTFS failed: input/output error
NTFS is inconsistent. Run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot it TWICE!
The usage of the /f parameter is very IMPORTANT! No modification was and will be made to NTFS by this software until it gets repaired.
Unable to read the contents of this filesystem! Because of this some operations may be unavailable."



I'm not good with computers, so i thought that posting the entire message would leave no important details out. My computer is relatively new, only 1 year old, with 350 gb of hard drive space and 2 gb of RAM.

I would really appreciate any help that anyone can offer. Just knowing what i have to do to get my computer to work again is all i need, as i have a few friends who could help me go through the directions. I want my computer to boot!

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Re: Cannot Boot After Gparted

Two beeps on start usually means a missing of defective hardware part (keyboard, mouse, graphics card or memory problem etc). Please, look at the motherboard or BIOS documentation about the exact meaning of those beeps.

There is no "merge" option in GParted, you have to delete a partition and expand another.

Working on ntfs needs to follow some rules. In the case of vista, I usually advice to try using the vista partition resize tool first, because it is easier to use, especially for users with a limited partitioning experience.
You have to boot the computer from a vista install dvd and run the "repair" function. This will make ntfs working again with the o.s.
From the vista disc ( "recovery console" ), you can fix the bootloader issue from the command line.

Don't forget that removing or adding partitions in a hard drive can change the partition numbering, so the bootloader configuration can't find the boot partition at the number where it looks.

(topic moved to the live media section)

*** It is highly recommended to backup any important files before doing resize/move operations. ***