Windows 10: Shrinked Windows 10 partition and created new ext4 partition - Now Windows does not boot,...

Basically the title. I have win10 installed on my ssd, i just shrinked the main ntfs partition by 50gb and created a ext4 filesysrem, installed mxlinux there, now Windows 10 does not boot. I did not touch windows files at all. :/

Now when I try to boot Windows boot manager, the uefi-boot screen's spinning logo stops at a certain position and pc restarts, Windows auto repair shows up. It fails, so I can't boot win10 now. Pls help.

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Create a new partition for Dual Boot OS ?

Here's what I did:

1. Create new partition
2. Install Windows 7
3. ????
4. Profit!

Microsoft will automatically detect that you have 2 OS and will ask you everytime you try to boot on which one to boot. One of my partition is factory setting Windows Vista, the other one is Windows 7.

 

W7 Hard drive partition issue

to get rid of that 100 meg windows partition that setup creates for you on a new install on a blank hdd:

- press shift+f10 when on the partition management screen in setup <-- this opens a command prompt
- diskpart <-- start the windows command line partition management tool
- list disk <--- list the installed hdds in this computer for the next step
- select disk 0 <- might have to replace 0 with the number of the correct disk
- clean <-- this will erase all data on the disk you selected one step up- dont use the wrong disk!
- create partition primary <- creates a primary partition taking up all space on the drive, adjust the command if necessary
- exit, exit to exit diskpart and the command prompt
- click refresh in partition manager and select your newly created partition and install to that

 

Boot windows installation within a partition?

Damnit, I knew thats what you wanted with your first post! I deleted my post because JMCSLOB confused me lol.


Hm, if you Follow this guide (Replace words "flash driive" with 160GB hard drive) How to Create a Bootable Windows 7 or Vista USB Drive for both partitions and then to do a dummy install of windows 8 on the last part of the HDD it should give you the option to boot Windows 7/8 Installer or boot into windows 8.
Edit: On step 4 you will want to make sure you size the partition correctly... or you can use the windows gui tool in control panel.


Once you get that far you can just delete windows 8 from the boot menu using MSCONFIG and delete the partition.