Resized partition, now unable to boot in windows. Need help!

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I had two partitions on my lappy, C drive and D drive. C drive had windows xp on it while D had all my files. Now both the drives where of 20gb each and D was filling up while C had just 6 gb used. So i decided to resize C using Partition Logic. I made C in to 10gb and 10 gb free space was created. But now i'm not able to boot in windows. What went wrong and what should i do now?

Boot using XP cd and goto recovery console and use fixmbr.

Which software you used to make partitions ! Are you sure you did not formatted/removed any files from C : Drive. Also check which partation is active
(Mark c : as active,Use partition magic)

I used partition logic. Its a freeware. I did not format anything. Just used the resize option on c drive and reduced it from 20gb to 10gb. Btw c is active.

@Charan i don't have XP cd. Any other way i can boot back in windows again.

You wrote "i'm not able to boot in windows"
what kind of error message r u getting ?

"Error loading operating system"

@krazyfrog(.)

sumeet is correct .. you didnt mention what error message you are getting

ne way do you atleast have XP installation files with you? if yes then you can use Bart's PE to create a live cd and then fix the issue. Check with Bart PE *www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ . the site also has a dos bootable CD image check with that( I myself havent checked that

).

EDIT: check with this
*support.microsoft.com/kb/326676 for that error..

Since Windows wasn't starting up, i installed Fedora 7 which i had on a Digit DVD. It awesome! Plus i've asked a friend who has a XP cd (pirated

). So no more problems here anymore.

^^^ some censor pls

gparted too is nice for partning.

Chalo great! one more linux user..