Vista broken after 11.04-12>04 Gparted upgrade

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I have been having problems updating on my laptop which was running 11.04,it also wouldnt allow me ot upgrade. Couldnt find certain repos etc so eventually I gave in and decided to install clean a 12.04 live cd.

Before that tho I had noticed I was running out of HD space so I Gparted (12.04 live cd)shrunk the Vista (as I only use it occasionaly).Left it with 10gig free and gained 20g whcih I added to the ext4. This all went fine untill I rebooted. Grub went missing ;(

I went for https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
Which got me back grub but vista still gave error.
http://paste.ubuntu.com/1502488/
Decided to just plough on and install 12.04.

I now have a working grub and 12.04.
Vista tries to boot but then falls back to the recovery screen and no matter what i choose (Startup repair or start windows normally) it just blinks and comes back to that screen.
Grubs windows recovery enviroment option also seems broke as it ends up in a large error screen, "can not open C:\recovery.dat)


any ideas or is vista beyond repair?
Yea, the usual laptop did not come with disks etc.

[vector]

Digging the whole deeper.
After sending the above post the laptop no longer booted and fell to grub rescue ;( Possibly trying windows recovery killed grub?

Tried
http://askubuntu.com/questions/19783...b-rescue-crash Option 0, which failed when it counldt find mount point /mnt/sys

So I ran boot repair
http://paste.ubuntu.com/1504646/

And now there is no Grub just straight into the windows recovery

[vector]

reinstalled 12.04
downloaded vista recovery,
even tho it could not find windows I told it to attempt repair anyway.
I waited and then restarted when prompted.
vista works yay
grub still there yay
12.04 works yaa

Im back to where I was a week ago.
God must love Ubuntu cause i didnt fix this