I have a dual boot Windows 7/Unbuntu system. Windows is on a SSD, and Unbuntu is on a partition on a separate drive in my system. I recently bought a smaller SSD to place Unbuntu on. In order to do so, I needed to shrink the Unbuntu partitions to fit the smaller drive. I used Gparted and shrunk the partitions related to Unbuntu. Unbuntu booted fine afterwards; however, when I attempted to boot Windows, the screen stated that it needed to check the disk for errors and proceeded to flash a bunch of information on the screen. I cannot recall what all the info pertained to, there was a lot and it was moving fast. I do recall that it was repairing files and doing something with orphaned files. When Windows booted, some of my programs will not load. I get a message stating that the program is not compatible with this version of Windows. It appears that some of the programs are running in 32bit. I have a 64 bit system. I did back all my files up a few months ago; however I am unable to recover them. Does anybody know how I can repair those nonworking files?
Some programs won't work after resizing an Unbuntu partition in dual boot system.
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Was the second drive installed when you installed Windows 7? If two drives are present Windows will install files on the second drive during installation. Resizing the partition may have caused something to be lost. I could be wrong though. Hopefully someone with experience running a dual boot system will be able to help.
Are you running Wubi? Are the programs natively 32-bit or are they running in some, strange compatibility mode? A shrinking of a partition separate from Windows shouldn't mess Windows up. The only problem is if any accidental shrinking was done TO Windows(the OS is not allowed to shrink).
I'm not exactly sure what Wubi is. I had/have W7 64bit installed on the SSD. Clean install last year. About two weeks ago, I installed Unbuntu from a USB drive. I had originally used the USB drive to boot Unbuntu, and just recently installed. Everything worked. I read up on how to install. I get the screen that allows me to choose which OS to boot. Unbuntu installed itself on a separate hard drive that I was using to create system images of my Windows OS. I used Gparted, and selected the partition that had Unbuntu. I didn't touch the drive that had W7; however, I did receive three warnings from Gparted--it didn't tell me the warnings. It just said that I had three. I'm thinking that somehow, when I shrunk the partition, that it may have messed up where Windows was referencing information. I can't think of the particulars right now, but I do know that a dual boot does something with the MBR. I think it changes the boot from Windows to a boot selector in Unbuntu--something to do with preventing Windows from taking over the boot selection. I'm also thinking that Windows may have repaired all the references, and while doing so, may have changed the settings in some of the programs. Maybe there was a selection process or a reference that got copied wrong. I don't know.
Do you know the scope of the program errors? If yes, is it small enough or practical enough to just reinstall the programs? If not, I would suggest a system restore. Gparted shouldn't be changing the boot files or taking boot control away from Windows. Even if that were the case, it shouldn't be affected normal programs like Skype or Google Chrome. Wubi is a Windows Ubuntu Installer, btw. It is basically Ubuntu but is tied to Windows in a few convenient ways.
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