Kubuntu hoses Windows on HP Pavilion A810n

[Douglas Phillipson]

Greg Booth wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 July 2007 9:03:02 pm Douglas Phillipson wrote:
>>>> Not good, have you booted up the live disc and taken a look at the
>>>> partition table there to see what's up ?
>>> I used BootItNG to resize the NTFS partition.  There is a 7mb Fat32
>>> partition.  I installed Kubuntu, it booted fine but Windows would not
>>> boot.  Then I just tried to reset the MBR with BootItNG, which I have
>>> done a dozen imes before on other PC's, and it restored Windows fully,
>>> but not now.  Even the (F10) Restore System key doesn't work.  Has it
>>> now become dangerous to install Linux?
>>>
>>> Doug P
>> Adn of course you no longer get recovery CD's anymore.  I have installed
>> dozens of Kubuntu systems safely in the past, My level of confidence
>> that I would not hose someones Windows installation has now been shattered!
>>
>> Doug P
> 
> Well, you lost me at "resized ntfs partition" that's not something I've ever 
> done. I've ghosted to a file, reformatted then ghosted back to the new 
> partition, but never just resized on the fly.
> 
> Greg
> 
When you install Linux there typically is no free space on the hard 
drive to do it.  You have to shrink the Windows partition to allow room 
  to add Linux partitions.  I've done this safely many times.

DSP