partitioning and disk errors
 

im basically new to linux, but encountered a problem that I have no idea if I can fix..

after setting up partitions etc dual booting linux with windows xp professional everything booted fine... used lilo to dual boot

however... i was unhappy with the size of my partitions after everything checked out so I decided to increase the size of my windows partition (with acronis partition expert) and now I have a disk read error when I try to boot windows

linux boots fine though...

are there any tools or any way I can go about trying to repair a ntfs partition that can no longer be read? as I said, im basically new to linux but any help would be greatly greatly appreciated... i would really hate to have to remove all of my windows information without trying to repair the partition somehow. thanks!!

i tend to use the linux prompt command cfdisk to partition my drives so it may hav something useful in it, but its more likely that windows is just being fussy :rolleyes:

my m8 has the same setup and windowsXP keeps nicking back the MBR! its even kindly automatically reformatted his Mandrake Linux partition!!