So somehow I killed a windows installation...

[Flush535]

Long story short, I was planning on shrinking C drive so that I could have a partition to store files that I needed to keep and had no where big enough to put them. Well, after I shrunk it, the computer rebooted and now windows won't start.

I know, I'm a dumbass for trying to do something like that. Anyways I have checked that the files I needed are still  on the drive and they aren't corrupted or anything like that. I've also ordered a 1 TB external drive to put them on to. I've given up hope of saving the installation, as the windows 7 iso that I had burned onto a flash drive repair's function didn't help at all.

What I would like to know is what the heck did I do wrong? There was plenty of room on c drive, and plenty of room left over after I shrunk it. It wouldn't make sense that removing empty space from a drive would mess up the OS. :x

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[takato14]

you should never perform major disk partition alterations without backing up your stuff first

windows is very temperamental when it comes to working or not working

[Trogtor]

A bit off topic but heres an interesting problem i had the other day (you guys might be able to figure it out but i have no idea)

My C:/ hard drive has my current Windows 7 OS on it and i have another hard drive, D:/ (which had an older windows vista OS from another pc which didnt work since its on another motherboard) which was split into 2 partitions (D: and E:)

I merged D: and E: the other day and somehow messed up the windows OS boot for drive C:

so a friend of mine got me another Hard drive and was generous to put another windows 7 OS on it. (I was planning on doing this anyways since my pc was running slow cause i tend to screw things up somehow)


now heres the funny thing, this new windows 7 OS works fine if i have the other hard drive w/ old windows 7 OS on it plugged in but when I put the hard drive with windows vista on, the screen comes up asking if i want to use vista or windows 7 and pressing windows 7 actually opens my old windows 7 OS which refuses to start

[Steve5451²]

Probably just boot flags. Download your partition editor of choice onto a flash drive and set your Windows installation as bootable.
Windows Repair might be able to do it if you've got a disk laying around.

[Flush535]

Any suggestions for a partition editor? I have a flash drive running xubuntu if that helps at all.

[Xphifre]

have you tried safe mode

[RedGajin]

man its gonna be really cold in your house

[Steve5451²]

Any suggestions for a partition editor? I have a flash drive running xubuntu if that helps at all.

Yeah it should have Gparted which is perfect.

[TomTheGeek²]

at this point i just save time and boot into a live cd of something and try to backup as much stuff as i can and just reinstall windows.

i could NEVER fix a problem like this.