On Saturday 11 November 2006 20:43, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > If one could send me the two ntfs images, before and after running > chkdsk, then I could add the needed support, suppose the problem is > indeed due NTFS changes.
Think I've got it. I've installed Vista Beta2 on my AMD64 box, resized the partition from 40 to 35 GB (ntfsresize only) => Vista fails to boot. Try repair with Vista installer => installer fails to boot. Use Windows 2000 (!) installation CD => chkdsk finds and repairs errors. Vista installer now boots, run its repair function => Vista boots again. I have put the NTFS images and some other files at: http://people.debian.org/~fjp/vista/ Here is the detailed procedure I've followed. This also explains the files available from the URL above. - Install Vista in 40GB partition - From Linux: - run ntfsclone to generate 'pre-resize' image - run md5sum on all files in Vista partition - save files in Vista /Boot directory - Resize NTFS partition to 35GB (using ntfsresize only) - From Linux: - run ntfsclone to generate 'post-resize' image (needed --force) - running 'md5sum -c' shows no files changed - Run Windows 2000 chkdsk - Run Vista installer repair utility - From Linux: - run ntfsclone to generate 'post-repair' image - running 'md5sum -c' shows changes: http://people.debian.org/~fjp/vista/post-repair/md5sum.log - 1 file deleted: /pagefile.sys - 10 files changed - save files in Vista /Boot directory again - save changed files in Vista /Windows/System32/config directory - Boot Vista (boot was a bit slow, but successful) I hope the info available now will be sufficient to track down the problem. If not, I could repeat the procedure and also generate an image after running the Windows 2000 chkdsk. I could also make a copy of the the other files that were changed during the repair process. Cheers, FJP
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