http://linuxexchange.org/questions/746/resizing-with-gparted-makes-other-windows-7-partition-unusable<p>Am I using it in the wrong way?<br> Luckily they were "temporary" Windows 7 RC versions that I was using while deciding whether to get rid of XP or not, but it would seem that when using GParted to do the partitioning, after rebooting in XP is fine but in 7 it says something along the line "partition invalid" or whatnot...<br> There are two primary partitions with the two Windows system on them and an additional Extended one with Linux.<br> <br> addendum: the error message during boot is as follows<br> Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.<br> ...<br> Status: 0xc0000225 Info: the boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.<br> <br> I had done many resize before with Linux/XP partitions but never with 7 and aside the odd time when I had to reboot twice in order to get the correct drive letters under XP (as explained in the GParted manual) I never had any other problem or anything bad like this</p>enTue, 01 Jun 2010 12:42:17 -0400http://linuxexchange.org/questions/746/resizing-with-gparted-makes-other-windows-7-partition-unusable/749<p>Some questions and hints for problems with <strong>GParted</strong>.</p> <ol> <li>Have you defragmented your partition (not with the Windows tool)?</li> <li>Is it a NTFS partition (I assume)?</li> <li>Did you have a backup as said in the <a href="http://gparted.sourceforge.net/docs/help-manual/C/gparted.html#gparted-introduction" rel="nofollow">manual of GParted</a>?</li> <li>Have you decreased the size to a smaller value than the used space on the partition?</li> </ol> <p>Some explanation to my points:</p> <ol> <li>The reduction works only without data loss if you defragment your partition. Otherwise, GParted will remove data blocks being allocated to real files. You don't want to do this, right?</li> <li>If it isn't a NTFS partition, it's not that easy to resize it. I don't have experiences with resizing FAT/VFAT.</li> <li>Nuff said.</li> <li>If you decrease the size to a smaller value than the used space, GParted will "cut" the partition with data loss.</li> </ol> <p>I hope, these hints will help you to solve your problem.</p>guerdaTue, 01 Jun 2010 12:42:17 -0400http://linuxexchange.org/questions/746/resizing-with-gparted-makes-other-windows-7-partition-unusable/749