[ale] Linux install breaking windows?

[Damon L. Chesser]

On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 18:09 -0500, mike at trausch.us wrote:
> On 02/08/2012 05:52 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > As long as the windows side was booted into after the repartitioning,
> > then that was not the cause.
> 
> Not necessarily.  It is possible that the resize operation did something
> screwy and after some arbitrary number of operations on the
> database---oops, I mean, filesystem---was a problem found.  I always
> follow up a resize operation on an NTFS volume with a forced CHKDSK in
> Windows just to be sure that everything is alright.  When the person I
> am doing work for doesn't insist I do things without backing up, I also
> take the time to back up first.  I have yet to need one of those
> backups, fortunately, though.
> 
> 	--- Mike

Mike has a good point:  It is best to resize the OS with the OS tools.
Windows 7 has a disk manager that will shrink the c: down to a min. size
and do it in a way that the OS likes.  So does XP.  I have ruined a
windows install by using Linux to resize, only one, but I have seen it.
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