Vista won't boot up all the way after resizing partition

[jedihawk]

Greetings experts,

I resized and moved my main Vista partition over to make room for dual-
boot with WinXP. WinXP boots up fine, but Vista no longer boots up.
It does get to the Startup Repair, but this fails with:

Root cause found:
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System volume on disk is corrupt.

It does this every time I try to boot up. I can view admin options
(such as Startup Repair, System Restore, Windows Complete PC Restore,
Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool, Command Prompt, and Restore
Application), but none of these are of any help because the filesystem
is write-protected.

Anyone know why Vista doesn't like it's main partition resized? And
how to fix without a re-install?

Thanks in advance.

-Hawk

 

[Richard Urban]

The Windows installation is disk and partition sensitive. If you moved the
O/S's relative partition from partition 1 to now be partition 2, the system
will not boot. If you have, in fact, done this - you will have to reinstall
the operating system into partition 2.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)