Operating system not loading, Cannot 'find Active Partition' error !

aniee7 · 06-02-2012, 12:34 PM

Hi,
i dual booted my laptop with opensuse 12.1 , windows 7 was already installed on it , but now there is a problem , when i started the computer , the windows 7 is gone , and opensuse also doesn't opens , this message comes :

" cannot find Active Partition
Reboot or boot by inserting a disk and press any Key"
Please tell me what to do , is my windows 7 also gone ?!
help!

yancek · 06-02-2012, 02:36 PM

I doubt if windows is gone. I suspect you were either not paying attention during the install of the bootloader. The message would seem to be a windows message. Use the Opensuse Live/Install CD and boot it and go to the site below and download the bootinfoscript. There is a link in the Description box explaining how to use it. When you have run it, post the output of the results.txt file and someone should be able to tell you where you went wrong.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/

syg00 · 06-02-2012, 08:24 PM

I think that's from the BIOS - presumes one primary partition has to be flagged as boot/active.
I've had SLES mark 2 as such. Let's see what the script says.

aniee7 · 06-03-2012, 03:18 PM

yes , i reinstalled it from the same DVD again , now opensuse is sine but the windows7 which was already present is gone

, is there any way to recover it ?

yancek · 06-03-2012, 05:00 PM

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i reinstalled it from the same DVD again , now opensuse is sine but the windows7 which was already present is gone

I doubt that. How did you check? If you are serious about getting some help here, I would suggest you download and run the bootinfoscript you have been asked to twice, post the results.txt file here as it will provide details on your partitions and boot files.

aniee7 · 06-04-2012, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by yancek

I doubt that. How did you check? If you are serious about getting some help here, I would suggest you download and run the bootinfoscript you have been asked to twice, post the results.txt file here as it will provide details on your partitions and boot files.

yeah i downloaded the bootinfoscript, but after doing it so many times the bootinfoscript is not working , it says 'no such file or directory exists' , what to do ?

yancek · 06-04-2012, 01:25 PM

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yeah i downloaded the bootinfoscript, but after doing it so many times the bootinfoscript is not working , it says 'no such file or directory exists' , what to do ?

You are probably running it in the terminal from the wrong directory but who knows as you haven't posted any relevant information on what happens. Read the instructions at the bootinfoscript download site before trying again. Probably all you need is to create a boot menu entry in the Opensuse menu.lst for windows 7. If you could run the bootinfoscript it will show information needed for someone to explain what you need to do.