Pre-Loaded Vista SUSE 10.1 dual installation

[areare]

I bought a SONY-VAIO VGN-SZ483N/C with preloaded Vista Business.
After shrinking the partition using the Vista Recovery tools, and after making the recover disks for Vista, I installed SUSE 10.1. In the process, the Windows partition was shrunk further. Now I am able to boot into Linux, but not into Vista. However, I can see the Windows partition with two partitions
/windows/C and /windows/D.

I added the following lines in /boot/grub/menu.lst

title Vista
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

This shows the option of Vista while booting, but does not boot. The system
hangs.

Tried to recover Windows using the recovery DVDs....did not help.
There is also a problem in the partition table....partition 1 does not end on a cylinder boundary.


The fstab is

/dev/sda6 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/sda4 /home reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/sda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002, nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sda2 /windows/D ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002, nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0


and the output of fdisk -l is

Disk /dev/sda/: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 852 6835200 27 Unknown
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/sda2 852 5554 37768815 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 5544 10595 40491409 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda4 10595 19458 71192576 83 Linux
/dev/sda5 5554 5816 2103948+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 5816 7738 15446466 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 7739 10594 22940788+ 83 Linux

Will appreciate all help.

best regards,

areare

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