Help! I cant find any of my windows xp files and documents

titanium_crainium · 06-19-2005, 01:00 PM

Hi folks I'm new to linux, but ive been messing with computers since i was a weee laddie. Anyway, I've installed linux "xandros" on my Dell, and it seems to have removed windows. I think that when i installed the linux, it repartitioned my hard drive strangely, so now i think that the old windows info is in an area of the hard drive that i cant access. Maybe some unix prompt comands or something. PLEASE ANYTHING!!
klaas

ethics · 06-19-2005, 01:09 PM

i've never tried xandros but since alot of distros come with GUI partitioners, how did you do it?, through the install? can you remember what changes you made to the hardisk?

When you start up the computer what happens? does it go straight into the xandros login?

You can try logging in as root with

Code:

SU -

Then enter your root password and type

Code:

fdisk -l

This should give you a list of the partitions on your drive now.

If you deleted your windows partition well... i think you're stuffed and you'll need to re-install windows.