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I saved some files (GParted details, a screenshot) on my GParted live disc. Is there any way of retrieving those files? I seem to remember getting an error message when I tried earlier today.
This is probably where the errors begin:
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Cluster 1042768 is referenced multiple times!
I'd made a new partition and increased its size by just one MB and... no more boot-in.
I should also mention the error I was getting when I tried to mount the DVD drive. (I say "was" because it seems to have gone away.)
When asked where to save the files, I chose the DVD (home/user if I recall correctly). As for the partitioning- Windows had three: the C drive (sda2), System (sda1), and HDDRecovery (sda4). sda3 is an extended partition, with Mint installed on sda5; sda7 is the new one. sda6 is the linx-swap.
Creating a new logical partition should not of affected anything. Did you use gparted to create the new partition? Would be nice to see a post of your partition layout using fdisk or gparted. By no more boot-in do you mean nothing boots i.e. neither windows or Mint?
Live DVDs depending on what OS you are running run from memory and disc using a unionfs or similar. Anything downloaded is saved to memory assuming you have enough and once shutdown is lost.
I believe by default Mint creates a /(root) and swap. With knowing what steps were used to get to the posted snapshot all we can tell is that your / might be corrupted which would lead to grub not finding your grub menu which then only drops you to a grub rescue prompt.
With knowing what steps were used to get to the posted snapshot all we can tell is that your / might be corrupted which would lead to grub not finding your grub menu which then only drops you to a grub rescue prompt.
I made a new partition, saw that Mint couldn't mount it for some reason, and resized it.
Well, I checked the drive in grub rescue. It found several entries- (hd0,msdos1), 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7. Then after using ls -l on a few of them, I got the same result each time: unknown filesystem. How do I learn which (hd0) entry corresponds to which /sda?
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