Again, as a result of playing with linux, my windows got burned.
Last night, booted into ubuntu with the plan to partition my drive for a dual boot because I'm trying really hard not to spend more money this month (getting a new drive). So use the ubuntu install to make the windows partition smaller then make a new one for linux, next step only shows the whole SDA1 as installable partition, (no choice) So go back a step and gparted shows both the partitions as black - unknown. Ooops
Promptly reboot, yep, no OS to boot, boot into windows disc, Recovery console, Fixboot, FixMBR, reboot. Sigh of relief with the windows xp logo boot screen. But then it says it cant find autoexec.bat. Checking on my dads pc and in work autoexec.bat is an empty file(?, so whats the point in it?)
Anyway, I've brought the HDD into work so can I just copy the file over? or is there more I need to do to fix it?
Cheers.


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But how do I actually repair it? Other tools have said there's loads of bad sectors. I'm at the stage where I just want to get my data and don't care about windows. If in Gparted I resize it, make a new partition on the end, will that restore the table? *Feeble cry "help me"*