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Bart6114

Member

Registered: 2009-02-21

Posts: 24

Booting Windows after changing its partition

Hey all,

Before installing Arch I backed up my windows partition (NTFS) with partimage. After installing arch I created a new NTFS partition (/dev/sda6) with gparted and restored the image on this partition.

I added the following to menu.lst

# (2) Windows
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,5)
makeactive
chainloader +1

my partitiontable looks as follows:

Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders, total 1250263728 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000b15cc

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *          63      208844      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sda2       551135232  1250263039   349563904    5  Extended
/dev/sda3         8401995    39134339    15366172+  83  Linux
/dev/sda4        39134340   551135231   256000446   83  Linux
/dev/sda5       551137280   559329279     4096000   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6       559331328  1250263039   345465856    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

I when trying to boot the windows partition it I get the following message:

 Error 12: invalid device requested  

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Dastingo

Member

Registered: 2011-01-15

Posts: 41

Re: Booting Windows after changing its partition

Windows must be on a primary partition to boot, it will not boot from a logical partition.

Bart6114

Member

Registered: 2009-02-21

Posts: 24

Re: Booting Windows after changing its partition

Sorry for the late response, but thanks!