Hi,

I appear to have really screwed up. I was running out of space on y dual boot W7 boot partition and as I had Easeus Part Manager on my XP partition I booted into XP and increased the size of the W7 partition by making the adjacent partition (after) smaller and merging the space into the W7 partition.

All appeared to work but now when selection boot into W7 it appears to start then spends 5 minutes trying to load my desktop and then leaves me with a W7 blue screen (not BSOD), if I Cntrl/Alt/Del into task manager I can run some system ops but file manager appears to show that I have the wrong 'c' partition - it is the one I took space from to extend the W7 partition. This is though it obviously boots into a W7 partition and the shown 'c' partition only contains some old data files.

Anyone know how I can recover this situation as I have a lot of progs loaded in W7 and would hate to have to reload them after reloading W7.

When I boot into XP I can see the W7 partition, it checks out OK and all the Windows and Programme files are there.

er, did you do create a recovery point before? Any back-ups? What about previous automatic system restore dates?

Did set a recovery point and have a full acronis backup but neither work. I am guessing that resizing the partition appears to have changed the disc addresses that the boot process goes to - do not know why as I have done the same thing before with no problems

have you tried rebuilding the master boot record for the win 7 partition? Put the disc in and go to recovery options

Boot off the windows 7 setup DVD and when the recovery options pop up select startup repair, that should sort out the boot addressing and get you back into action again. Using an older OS to fix a newer one that was not around when released does cause some strange effects.