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I am trying to resize a 160GB disk to fit on a 80GB disk,

I have tried 3 times to shrink my NTFS and resize the partition. Im using backtrack as a live CD to do this,

I use ntfsresize to the filesystem to 60GB Then I use fdisk to delete the partition and then create a new partion starting at the same point but finishing at 60GB, I mark the partition bootable and give it an ID of 7 which is for NTFS then I write it to disk and reboot, I then get,

"Operating system not found"

So then I used ms-sys to repair the MBR which it said was successful, But now when I boot I get

"Error loading operating system"

Any Ideas, luckily I have clonezilla backup of the 160GB disk and I just keep reimaging and then trying again but im stuck as to how to get it to work,

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  • Did you put fdisk into sector mode ( -u switch or the u command )? If not then you probably did not recreate the partition with the same start point since it probably wasn't originally on an even cylinder boundary.
    – psusi
    Commented Jul 29, 2011 at 14:19

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I do all of my partition resizing with a Parted Magic Live CD or USB stick and it's not let me down yet - it's a single-step operation in a GUI environment and there's no need to shrink manually and then use fdisk.

Might be worth reinstalling your image and giving it a try.

PS: Kudos for actually keeping a backup before trying the operation - many don't!

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  • Downloading now.. Ill give it a go and let you know thanks for the pointer
    – squareborg
    Commented Jul 29, 2011 at 12:13
  • That completely worked plus it shows you all the commands its running. I dont know why I constantly do things the hard way!
    – squareborg
    Commented Jul 29, 2011 at 13:13
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I just used GParted to do this successfully on an Ubuntu system, for both vfat and ntfs filesystems.

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