WELL YOU SEE. what happened was.
i had a primary windows partition (c
fst32
a logical partition (d
fat32
a ext3 partition for fc5
a swap partition
a ext2 partition for /boot
and a reiserfs partition for Suse 9.1 personal.
I decided that i no longer need fc5, so i deleted the partition using qtparted. Now it seems that the whole partition table has got upset and when i boot, grub waits for me to enterthe commands.
I have tried the basic commands to boot windows i.e.
rootnoverify(hd0,0)
chainloader +1
boot
This just hangs up the comp.
This is the basic layout of my drive hda1 according to puppy-linux whose live-cd i am using currently till i get help.
tmpfs 662376 66420 595956 10% /
/dev/hda1 19421072 14463648 4957424 74% /mnt/home
/dev/loop1 253871 2987 237777 1% /root
/dev/loop0 54208 54208 0 100% /.usr_cram
none 308079 57195 237777 19% /usr
/dev/hda5 11922384 9900528 2021856 83% /mnt/hda5
/dev/hda7 2353396 1956844 396552 83% /mnt/hda7
/dev/hda8 248895 12123 223922 5% /mnt/hda8
i suppose the tmpfs is something which puppy created temporarily.
hda5 is my d: ie fat32
hda1 is my c: also fat32
hda7 is my suse partition.
hda8 is my boot partition where my suse kernel and ramdisk
are kept in /suse/vm* and /suse/init*
i dont know where my swap space went, it is not showing in the table.
Anyway, this is what i tried
root(hd0,7)
kernel /suse/vm*
initrd /suse/init*
and then it starts all that booting and then it says
Kernel panic. Could not enter an init mode. try passing init= to the kernel.
so i end up not being able to boot anything.
Then i had an idea. I thought i will boot the winxp cd and run fixmbr from the recovery console. But the cd boots and says
'setup is inspecting your hardware configuration' and then the pc goes blackout forever.
i changed the hard-disk and the cd boots fine, so there is something wrong with this hard -disk i suppose, with the partition table.
Please tell me first how do i restore windows so that i can correct everything from partition magic.
Please help. If i should write a new mbr please upload the mbr image and give me instructions.