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I used gparted to resize two partitions on a Windows XP machine, however something went wrong, and now Windows can not recognize the partition format of the first partition (the one containing Windows), however it boots fine, and I am able to browse the data on the partition, and it seems to have the right size as well. However I fear that sooner or later this will result in some nasty problems and possibly data loss.

Is there a simple way to recover from these problems, and leave the computer in a more stable state? I am looking for some kind of tool that can recover the partition.

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    You should probably use SuperUser for this instead of SO.
    – Dav on a Plane
    Dec 20, 2009 at 21:16
  • Yeah, just realised that, I see there is a migrate function available, but can't find it.
    – zpon
    Dec 20, 2009 at 21:23

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I believe you need to apply the latest service pack for Windows XP. You are probably using a later version of the filesystem on the other partition.

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  • That could very well be, I will give it a shot tomorrow, when I see it, its a family members computer.
    – zpon
    Dec 20, 2009 at 21:44
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I would reinstall the computer and repartition it during installation. Never use a non-stable computer if a data lose occur - it doesn't the worth the time it take to install a new machine now...

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  1. Backup everything
  2. Test the backup works!
  3. Copy the backup somewhere
  4. Test the second backup worked!
  5. Re-partition & Reformat
  6. Recover the backup

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