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I broke my computer completely #_#
Lupin:
--- Quote from: Remak on February 08, 2012, 02:14:54 AM ---In windows earlier today, I tried to shrink the windows partition down 25gb and set up a new partition to put all my music and documents and wallpapers to access from both os's.
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This caused the problem. You should have resized the partition using OSX. Windows altered stuff that OSX needs to boot.
Just use a live cd that can read whatever format that windows partition is to recover the files.
Bob2004:
You say you can boot Windows in safe mode? Do so, go to Control Panel -> System -> Advanced system Settings -> go to the Advanced tab, and open Startup and Recovery Settings, and uncheck the box labeled "Automatically Restart".
Now you can reboot your computer, and when the BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death - the blue screen with white letters you see) appears, your PC won't automatically reboot, and you can see what it says. It should tell you what the specific error is that's causing Windows to crash (at the least it should tell you what file the error is related to) - there'll be a whole load of complicated numbers and data that you don't need, but there should be one or two lines which state the error in (relatively) plain English; post what it is here, and it should give us a better idea of the cause of your problem.
--- Quote from: Lupin on February 08, 2012, 11:41:36 AM ---This caused the problem. You should have resized the partition using OSX. Windows altered stuff that OSX needs to boot.
Just use a live cd that can read whatever format that windows partition is to recover the files.
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It sounds like a slightly more complex problem than that; if it was that simple, then Windows would still be working fine.
--- Quote from: Kyrdua on February 08, 2012, 08:51:21 AM ---Did you just say Macbook?
o_o, pretty sure stuff works differently on that even if you say it involves partitions and whatnot.
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Nah, fundamentally it's still just a laptop. The main difference is OSX, which works with partitions etc just the same as any other OS.
--- Quote from: kitamesume on February 08, 2012, 07:58:21 AM ---o.o ehh.. risky? haven't encountered a single error via resizing the OS's partition by more than a dozen times ranging 30gb-50gb(seems like 40gb is my sweetspot right now, win7 starts at around 25gb @ fresh install including drivers and grows to 30+gb after ridiculous patches...).
i use "EASEUS Partition Manager" if that makes a difference.
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Basically, shrinking partitions is absolutely fine... so long as you don't accidentally get rid of space that contained data. If all your data is located in the first 50GB of a 150GB partition, with nothing in the remaining 100GB, then you can, in theory, cut out that 100GB without any issues. If there's data located in that 100GB though, then at best you'll just lose that data; at worst you'll completely break everything (if it's a Windows system file that got deleted, for example). Since, due to drive fragmentation etc, even if you only have 50GB of data on the partition it might still extend further than that (with lots of empty bits in between), you need to be very careful when resizing system partitions.
kitamesume:
^ shouldn't that be common sense though? "everybody knows you can't shrink a plate filled with food just like that, it'll spill =P"
Bob2004:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on February 08, 2012, 01:44:48 PM ---^ shouldn't that be common sense though? "everybody knows you can't shrink a plate filled with food just like that, it'll spill =P"
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Yeah, but it's not necessarily all that easy to find out where in the partition your data is; it could be all over the place. I imagine most people just think. "Well, I have 50GB of free space, so shrinking it by 30GB should be fine", without realising that actually, that 50GB of free space is probably spread out all over the drive, and isn't just at the end. There are, I think, defragmentation tools which, as well as defragmenting the drive, shift all the data neatly to one end of the parition; it's always a good idea to use one of those before shrinking a partition, IMO.
kitamesume:
i think EASEUS partition manager does that, though on a sequence of relocating the files before touching the partition, oh and if i remember correctly, it doesn't allow shrinking the partition to a smaller size than it's contents.
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