HELP! Can't boot XP after Gparted Resize

I used Gparted to change my Vista, XP, and Data partition sizes, to allow more space for both Vista and XP.

After doing so, it rebooted, and I can boot into Vista, but XP hangs at the screen with the blue background and Windows XP logo.

It does the same thing in Safe Mode. I also did a chkdisk on the XP partition from Vista. Alt-Tab and Ctrl-Alt-Del do nothing either. I have mouse movement, however.

Any suggestions?

Thanks a million for any help!

 

You may need to do a repair, as GParted could have messed up some system files.

Take a look at this link, although it is referring to Windows Vista:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-gparted-to-resize-your-windows-vista-partition/

 

I tried the Vista recovery, but that didn't help.

I treid to rebuild the boot.ini and write a new mbr, and reset the ntldr.

Still no go. I guess I'll have to reformat and reinstall. The thing that sucks about that is that means I have to reinstall BOTH XP and Vista because installing XP porks Vista.

 

For what it's worth, the resizing probably messed up your partition tables in some fashion (cold comfort, I realize, if you've already finished reinstalling everything).

 

What has probably happened is that now the XP boot files are in a different location than they were originally. A repair of the boot.ini file should be all that is necessary. But I can't give you specifics of this on a dual boot machine, like you have. But I am pretty sure you don't have to resort to a total reinstall to accomplish this. Its all an issue of pointers.

I would think if you did a repair to XP(which will hose Vista temporarily) and then repaired Vista using the dual boot repair utility floating around (sorry I forget the name), you should be back up and running in a few minutes.

Gary

 

Well, I did an XP recovery install, that booted back to XP, but it takes forever to boot now. I used VistaBootPro to get back my dual boot with Vista. I guess I'll have to reinstall anyhow because it's definitely not up to par performance-wise.

 

Ok, then one final step to try BEFORE you resort to a total reinstall. Reboot XP a couple of times just to insure that it has logged all of the drivers and the order in which they are loaded. Then look at my signature line below, and click on the link about defragging Vista boot files. This trick was actually derived from an XP utility so it works just as well on XP as it does on Vista. See if it fixes your performance issues when booting.

I suggest the reboots to create the log because the trick outlined uses the log files to determine the proper sequenc of the boot files.

Gary

 

Ack! The recovery console worked fine in XP, but it changed XP partition drive letter from D: to E:! (Vista has always been C: for some reason). Now all my installed programs on that partition won't work. I found the way to change the system drive letter (can't be done from computer management/disk management in XP) through Windows website (regedit change), but now it's back to that same boot screen frozen.

Now I'm thinking that when I repartitioned, that drive letter was reassigned for some reason, giving me the same problem.

So it looks like a full reformat anyhow.

 

Although I'm thinking I'll make this a dual boot XP / Windows 7 install instead of XP / Vista. Debating though whether I should just stick with XP only for now and wait for full Windows 7 release, otherwise I'm sure I'll have to go through this same song and dance again! sigh.

 

Good day,

Sorry for bringing up this post again but I am encountering the same problem:
> XP hangs at the screen with the blue background and Windows XP logo.

I have XP and Ubuntu installed previously. However, due to limited space of XP, I resized the partitions for both.

Ubuntu runs fine, however, when I logged into XP, it gets stuck in the ff. screen:


I tried googling around but still haven't tried much.
I don't want to risk losing ubuntu as well.

I can still access my XP hard drive from Ubuntu.

I've already downloaded XP recovery CD, however, I'm not sure what commands to run and in what order.
I'll try repairing using XP installation cd.

Reinstallation/reformat of the XP partition is not an option for me (well, for the meantime).

Hopefully, someone will be able to provide support.

 

"what has probably happened" is that either vista has touched all of the partitions *or* gpartd has updated the NTFS rev level above what the XP drivers can handle/boot from.

If this is the case, you will probably be able to grab all of your data from the XP partition (whilst booted into Vista) but as for recovery to a bootable state, it's going to be a crap shoot. An XP recovery disk might finally scramble the partition for good. Or it might not. No way to know without actually doing it.

I see this (vista/win7 messing with a pre-existing XP partition) happening all the time and this is one of many reasons why partitions are a bad, bad idea on 'mixed' MSFT OS systems.

This is what Virtual Machines were made for.