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Help! Disk read error
Hi,
I seem to have made a mess here.
I had Vista 64x and W7 build 7057 set up in a dual boot with W7 on a 30Gb partition.
Acting on advice in another thread I decide to shrink my Vista partition and expand my W7 partition using GParted.
That seemed to go ok and I shrank Vista partition to about 400GB and expanded the W7 partition to about a 100GB.
However, I now cannot boot at all. When I try I get "A disk read error occurred. press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart".
When I try this nothing happens and I have to do a power shutdown.
I have attempted repairs using my Vista disk and that tells me nothing is wrong. Likewise I tried repair with my W7 disk with the same result. Both tell me that the system booted succesfully.
I then tried reinstalling both Vista and W7 to their respective partitions and I still get no boot and a Disk read error message.
I have been in the BIOS and tried every boot device option but still nowhere.
I'm writing this from the Asus Splashtop OS that came with my mobo. I thought it was a bit of a gimmick but it might just save me now!
Can anybody help, John