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Windows XP bluescreen after secure zone resize!

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Hello forum,

please help me with my serious problem:
On an older laptop I am using TI-Server 7.0 and got big problems after I decided to shrink the secure zone with Recovery Manager (to have more space on my Windows partition).
Now Windows fails during boot with a bluescreen (it goes away very quick to restart the PC, so I can't read the exact reason).

I don't know what could be the problem, when I go back into Recovery Manager everything looks fine, I can see the files are there on drive C: and as Windows starts booting I guess it is not a problem with the partition table or MBR !?

Is it worth trying to do a backup of the System partition and restore that backup with Recovery manager ?

Any comment / help would be highly appreciated as there is a tons of ancient device drivers and applications installed on this laptop (which is my last one with PCMCIA interface) !!!

Thanks,
Tom

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I am not familiar with TI-Server 7.0 but I guess that the same constraints apply when altering the size of the secure zone as with other TI versions.
The golden rule is to make the changes using the manage secure zone wizard. This can be done when booted in Windows or the TI recovery environment. Any changes to the zone made using disk management in Windows or a partitioning tool will result in the problem you describe.

I suggest that you first make a TI recovery CD, if you do not already have one. This can be done on another computer if the subject computer cannot boot to the TI recovery environment. The next step would be to boot from the TI CD , remove the secure zone and then re-create it to the size you require followed by re- activation of of the recovery manager.
These operations would lose the existing contents of the old zone which would have to be re-built over time but it should get you up and running.

I did not break the golden rule, I made all changes with the acronis tools that's why I was so confused that it did not work (the way it should do).

Anyway, I solved my problem:
With the Acronis Recovery Manager again I have chosen the option to remove the secure zone and apply the free space to my Windows partition.
After reboot everything was fine, Win XP is booting and I am happy!

Only I have the bad feeling now that all this backup scenario to safe an important setup made things more insecure and caused more trouble to me which without system backup I wouldn't have encountered!