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I installed Mandrake 9.1 on an HP Omnibook 6000 with windows 2000 already installed, but now I can't reach the windows partition. It's mounted but I get a input/output error when I try to access it. There is a windows option in the lilo boot menu, but when selecting it, its hanging at 'loading windows...'. Could anyone please help?
How many drives do you have, and do you have a master and slave (if two or more). If one, how did you resize the Win2000 partition (or did you just use the blank space available on the drive ?).
Also, it may help if you post your /etc/lilo.conf file.
It's possible that your windows partition is not actually hda1 - there's often a small partition at the beginning, particularly on laptops, reserved for the Oem utilities. What is the output of (as root)
Yes, the partitions seem to be correct. Incidentally, is this a typo ?
Code:
other=/dev/hda1
label="windows"
table=/dev/hda"
Either way, I'd probably comment out the table line as it's usually only needed for Dos partitions, and then re-run /sbin/lilo.
Other than that, I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work. Can you see all of your old windows data from your linux system ? (I.e., to ensure that that drive hasn't become corrupted).
No it's not a typo, I tried to comment it out, but it made no difference. But what is probably more important: No, I can't see any data on the windows partition from linux. I can mount it, but when I'm trying to access it, I get an input/output error. This is what I get from the system log:
Code:
NTFS-fs error {device 03:01}: ntfs_end_buffer_async_read(): Buffer I/O error, logical block 3920120[x].
[this is repeated many times]
NTFS-fs error {device 03:01}: Reading index allocation data failed.
I would very much like to avoid to reinstall the systems, but I guess it's my best choice?
Oh dear, it does look as if your windows partitition has become corrupted
I would run GPart (see http://linux-universe.com/HOWTO/LILO...on_rescue.html to see if there are any inconsistencies in hda1, then if necessary make a backup image of it and try to recover the data later, before re-installing windows. Of course you'll then need to either modify your windows boot loader so that it can see Mandrake, or re-install Lilo. (Gag is another boot loader, thus won't help too much if the partition is in bad shape.)
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