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Hello All - I'm really new to this, and have what seems to be a pretty serious problem, so would really appreciate a lot of help. I had Ubuntu installed alongside windows xp professional - ubuntu creadted its own partition on installation. I eventually decided to stick with windows, and needed to re-gain the lost space taken up by ubuntu.
I deleted the ubuntu volumes, leaving a bunch of unallocated space, and then re-sized the c: drive with the "append all unallocated space" box ticked. I noted that it required a re-boot to complete the process on committing. I hit the button and it went through it's processes, only to crash on re-boot - all I get on the screen is "reboot with CD", and if I do nothing, I get "no such partition exists" and then "rub rescue". Obviously if I hit enter after the "re-boot with CD" in time, then again I get the "no such partition exists" - because there is no Cd in the drive.

Where do I go from here??

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Mel:

Use the "Acronis Bootable Media Builder" option on the Tools menu to create a bootable CD version of the program:

Boot your PC with the CD and try the operation again. Changes to the Windows partition need to be done while Windows is not running.

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Thanks Mark

I can't! I can't get at anything?? on that particular PC - I have a boot floppy, but it seems it won't read the floppy drive either? Windows was running when I used the program to re-size the partition

Mel:

I'm not sure that I understand what your PC is doing. Are you saying that it won't boot to a CD or to a floppy? If that's the case then try entering BIOS setup on the PC. Since each PC is different you need to know the "magic" key to press to enter setup when the PC starts up - usually it's DEL or F1 or F2.

Once in setup, check the menus for the boot order and set it up to boot from CD first. Some PCs have more than one menu that controls this; one contains a list of devices that the PC can boot from (hard disks, CD, floppy, network, etc.) and a second menu controls the hard disk order (if you have more than one hard disk you can select the priority order).

Again, each PC is different. Some will rearrange the boot order menu whenever the PC detects a hardware change (adding or removing a disk, for example). So take a look in SETUP to see how it's currently set up.

Since you were successful in installing Ubuntu in the past, as an experiment try booting the PC from the Ubuntu install disk to see what happens...