Grub error 17

[Wickex]

Hey

I have a little problem. As soon as I boot my computer, Grub gives me an error 17. It happened after I tried to resize my Windows partition with a program. I have a dual boot between Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.04.

I've tried everything I could find on this forum and on the rest of the internet, but nothing was working. Most of them require a Windows CD (god knows where it is) or reinstalling grub and all that stuff, but it's all not working.

I'm currently on a Ubuntu Live CD. Gparted doesn't detect any of my partitions, but just says 232 GB unallocated space. Palimpsest Disk Utility and the Explorer see all my partitions though EXCEPT my Windows 7 partition I tried to resize.

The fdisk -l command isn't telling me something useful either:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5

Unable to seek on /dev/sda

I really, really have no single idea of what I could possibly do and how I could possibly fix this. I've been working on this problem for like 2 weeks now. I really, really hope somebody here can help me fix this.

Thanks in advance!

[Lostfarmer]

resize my Windows partition with a program

What program and version ?

Palimpsest Disk Utility

can you post its web site.

If it can be fixed , it will likely require a hdd editor program. It would seem that the resize failed and caused partiton table errors.

Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5

Idicates to me that there were at least 5 extened volumes (sda5-9)

Do you remember just what partitions you had, if so post as best you can.

Try to run' sudo fdisk /dev/sda ' --m=menu,p=display partition table