Have I screwed it?

Jongi · 10-15-2005, 08:35 PM

Resized NTFS. That worked without a problem. Could restart XP from the bootloader. Had a problem starting SUSE. Repaired the boot partition (using SUSE boot disk). Now I can't see the NTFS drive. Can I recover or re-install windows?

halo14 · 10-15-2005, 10:08 PM

you can always reinstall windows.. but that's up to you of course

try doing a repair install and see if it can find the windows partition.

paulsm4 · 10-15-2005, 10:17 PM

Hi -

1. If you boot from the Windows CD, you should be able to hit "R" to go into "Recovery Console" and, hopefully, you can verify the Windows partition is still there.

2. I'm curious - exactly how do you know you "can't see it"? What commands did you try, and/or what error messages did you see?

3. Have you tried something like:

su - root
mount -t ntfs /dev/hdaXX /windows/C

4. This "howto" might help:
http://www.linuxforum.com/linux_tutorials/1/1.php

Your .. PSM

Jongi · 10-20-2005, 05:33 AM

Fixed.

By not being able to see the NTFS drive, I mean that I was mounting the partition but an ls was returning an empty folder.

What I did was use the Recovery Console for XP. Xp was giving an error of not being able to access the drive or something when I ran a dir command. I entered a fixboot c: command and then reboot the system.

Went into SUSE and lo and behold I could see the files on the NTFS partition. Now I was left with the task of getting Windows to boot. So I thought simple, just rerun the bootloader. Sure enough GRUB could see XP and added it to the bootloader menu. Sweet I thought. Reboot. Choose Windows in Grub. Then got a partition unknown error or something similar. Tried to change the root part in the grub menu to rootnoverify. No go.

Reloaded XP recovery console. Issued a fixmbr command. Thought that this would boot XP and I could then reconfigure grub from the install DVD. Nope. No grub. No windows.

Booted from the install DVD, chose to install grub again. Nothing. Redid this last step, making sure to have grub replace the MBR code. Success \o/

Both SUSE and XP boot. Now to install FC4.

halo14 · 10-20-2005, 08:13 AM

install fc4!? Over SUSE?? *head-a-splode*

Jongi · 10-20-2005, 08:50 AM

Who said anything about over? Alongside dear fellow. I am still in the experimental stage of Linux. Have tried Mandriva. Just shaded by SuSE. But at the moment it looks like sSUSE is gonna be the one I keep.

halo14 · 10-20-2005, 11:15 AM

ah.. my mistake.