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Can't boot XP with Grub
hey everyone,
i have installed fedora and xp on my computer i have 2 partitions on my harddrive, 1st partition XP 2nd partition fedora10 this is my grub.conf # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg. # root (hd0,1) # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda2 # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sda default=1 timeout=15 splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Fedora (2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686) root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686 ro root=UUID=592ccd22-e277-4fb2-be22-59930f820f34 rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686.img title Fedora (2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686) root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686 ro root=UUID=592ccd22-e277-4fb2-be22-59930f820f34 rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.img title Other rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 this is my fdisk [root@localhost Andrew]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x18387c7d Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 16519 132688836 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 16520 23046 52428127+ 83 Linux /dev/sda3 23047 24321 10241437+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 23047 24321 10241406 b W95 FAT32 i tried booting using other, but xp does not load. ive searched around for about an hour trying various things to edit my grub.conf, but it did not work. any help would be greatly appreciated |
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=/ none of those have worked, thanks for the effort though
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Does it start to load then fail, or does it just redisplay the grub menu, or a blank screen, or does it do nothing at all ... ???. |
using the grub config from the original post, the screen would go black with a blinking underscore, hang for a bit then reboot
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That sounds like the boot sector of your Windows partition may have been walked on (just the bit that handles the boot, not your data).
Try booting your XP CD and go into recovery console when you see the message. Run fixboot and see it it will load (from grub) after that. This shouldn't have happened BTW - did you happen to re-start (re-do) the F10 install ?. |
no i havent tried to redo the f10 install, i think that extra fedora boot option appeared i let it update. however, ill try to xp cd. thank you
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i put my XP cd into the comp and let it start. when it got to the install page, there was no option for the recovery console. i think is happening because the XP i have installed is XP home but i ionly have a XP pro disk. i exited and now i cant boot anything. my computer boots into a loop, it shows my viao screen, then the screen turns black, hangs and reboots. any help?=[
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Erk - that might be ugly.
You went too far with the CD - it offers "resource centre" prior to the install stage. I don't know where you are at now as regards Windoze. Try a (Linux) liveCD and see what it can see - might be a good idea to ensure you have a decent backup of your data. |
I'v fixed the mbr with super grub disk so i can boot into fedora, however if i use super grub disk and try to boot windows my computer reboots=[ but other than that i DO have the grub bootloader now
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Shadows72, if your Windows boot sector is the problem, often you can use "testdisk" to repair it without having to use a Windows CD. And actually, testdisk can repair some specific problems with an NTFS boot sector that even Windows own "fixboot" can't. But before you try that, it would be good to see if your Windows boot sector is actually the problem, so how about downloading the Boot Info Script to your desktop, and then do the following as root user, but replace <username> with your username:
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bash /home/<username>/Desktop/boot_info_script*.sh |
thanks for the help, this is the result.txt
============================= Boot Info Summary: ============================== => Grub0.97 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive in partition #2 for /boot/grub/stage2 and /boot/grub/menu.lst. sda1: _________________________________________________________________________ File system: ntfs Boot sector type: Windows Vista Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block. Operating System: Windows XP Boot files/dirs: /boot.ini /bootmgr /Boot/BCD /ntldr /NTDETECT.COM sda2: _________________________________________________________________________ File system: ext3 Boot sector type: - Boot sector info: Operating System: Fedora release 10 (Cambridge) Kernel on an () Boot files/dirs: /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/grub.conf /etc/fstab sda3: _________________________________________________________________________ File system: Extended Partition Boot sector type: - Boot sector info: sda5: _________________________________________________________________________ File system: vfat Boot sector type: Windows XP: Fat32 Boot sector info: According to the info in the boot sector, sda5 starts at sector 63. Operating System: Boot files/dirs: =========================== Drive/Partition Info: ============================= Drive sda: _____________________________________________________________________ Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders, total 390721968 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x18387c7d Partition Boot Start End Size Id System /dev/sda1 * 63 265,377,734 265,377,672 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 265,377,735 370,233,989 104,856,255 83 Linux /dev/sda3 370,233,990 390,716,864 20,482,875 f W95 Ext d (LBA) /dev/sda5 370,234,053 390,716,864 20,482,812 b W95 FAT32 blkid -c /dev/null: ____________________________________________________________ /dev/sda1: UUID="68647A6F647A403C" TYPE="ntfs" /dev/sda2: LABEL="/" UUID="592ccd22-e277-4fb2-be22-59930f820f34" TYPE="ext3" /dev/sda5: LABEL="NDS" UUID="4869-0F1F" TYPE="vfat" =============================== "mount" output: =============================== /dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw) /proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/Andrew/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=Andrew) ================================ sda1/boot.ini: ================================ ; ;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems. ;Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options. ; [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /FASTDETECT ========================== sda2/boot/grub/grub.conf: ========================== # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg. # root (hd0,1) # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda2 # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sda default=0 timeout=15 splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Fedora (2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686) root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686 ro root=UUID=592ccd22-e277-4fb2-be22-59930f820f34 rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686.img title Fedora (2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686) root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686 ro root=UUID=592ccd22-e277-4fb2-be22-59930f820f34 rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686.img title Fedora (2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686) root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686 ro root=UUID=592ccd22-e277-4fb2-be22-59930f820f34 rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.img title Other rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 =============================== sda2/etc/fstab: =============================== # # /etc/fstab # Created by anaconda on Sun Jan 25 14:47:39 2009 # # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk' # See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or vol_id(8) for more info # UUID=592ccd22-e277-4fb2-be22-59930f820f34 / ext3 defaults 1 1 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 =================== sda2: Location of files loaded by Grub: =================== 136.1GB: boot/grub/grub.conf 136.1GB: boot/grub/menu.lst 136.1GB: boot/grub/stage2 136.2GB: boot/initrd-2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686.img 136.2GB: boot/initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.img 136.2GB: boot/initrd-2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686.img 136.1GB: boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686 136.2GB: boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686 136.1GB: boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686 =======Devices which don't seem to have a corresponding hard drive============== sdb . sdc . sdd . sde . |
It looks like you had Vista installed at some point, because Vista's boot files are in your XP sda1 partition, and also your sda1 partition has a Vista boot sector rather than an XP boot sector. So to try and fix the boot sector with testdisk, how about downloading the testdisk-6.10.linux26.tar.bz2 package to your desktop, and then run it as root user:
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this is the text in the terminal Disk /dev/sda - 200 GB / 186 GiB - CHS 24321 255 63 Partition Start End Size in sectors 1 * HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 16518 254 63 265377672 Boot sector Status: OK Backup boot sector Status: Bad Sectors are not identical. A valid NTFS Boot sector must be present in order to access any data; even if the partition is not bootable. [ Quit ] [ List ] [Org. BS ] [Rebuild BS] [ Dump ] Copy boot sector over backup sector |
OK, since testdisk won't let you use the "Backup BS" option, how about instead downloading this XP Recovery CD, boot that, go to the recovery console and do:
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fixboot cannot find the system drive, or the drive specified is not valid
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Were you able to login to the recovery console OK? And then you got that error after running the fixboot command? If so, how about first doing:
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now when i try to boot i get a "NTLDR is missing" prompt
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CJS seems to be on top of things, but in the past I've found that message comes from the boot sector record on the Windows partition. After a (normal) fixboot, I have presumed this to mean more sectors were trampled on than fixboot fixes. When I have had this I have had to resort to a re-install of Windoze to rectify things.
Hopefully others will have a better solution. |
i hope so too=[ i didnt now backup any of my data yet since that computer is a secondary and if a reformat is necessary ill have to go get a usb harddrive reader to transfer my files=/
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Shadows72, how about next posting:
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thanks for all the help again, i assume the prompts are for fedora? now i cant even boot fedora. i tried to boot fedora using super grub disk and i get "Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS"
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Did you do any kind of software updating in Fedora prior to the booting problem, especially a kernel upgrade? Or did you make any changes to Grub other than the menu.lst? If not, to get a Grub error 18 out-of-the-blue could mean you have hardware issues at this point. I would go to the manufacturer's website for your HDD and download their diagnostic tools to run on your HDD, and see if your HDD is OK. It would also be good to run "memtest86+" to check your RAM; I don't know about Fedora, but the Ubuntu Live CD comes with memtest86+ as an option, and there are many other CDs that have it too.
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i think i have does a kernel upgrade before the booting problems. when i edit grub i edit grub.conf. i will look for the HDD diagnostics tonight
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How about running the Boot Info Script again and posting its output, because that will give us a better idea if the issue might be with your new kernel upgrade.
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how do i do that without linux? can i run it using the fedora repair ?
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You can run the Boot Info Script from any Live CD you might have, you don't have to run it from an installed distro.
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============================= Boot Info Summary: ============================== => No known boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda sda1: _________________________________________________________________________ File system: Boot sector type: Unknown Boot sector info: Mounting failed: mount: unknown filesystem type '' sda2: _________________________________________________________________________ File system: Boot sector type: Unknown Boot sector info: Mounting failed: mount: unknown filesystem type '' sda4: _________________________________________________________________________ File system: Boot sector type: Unknown Boot sector info: Mounting failed: mount: unknown filesystem type '' =========================== Drive/Partition Info: ============================= Drive sda: _____________________________________________________________________ Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders, total 390721968 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x69737369 Partition Boot Start End Size Id System /dev/sda1 ? 1,869,771,365 2,038,460,886 168,689,522 69 Unknown /dev/sda2 ? 1,701,519,481 3,571,400,945 1,869,881,465 73 Unknown /dev/sda4 0 3,435,113,471 3,435,113,472 0 Empty /dev/sda1 ends after the last sector of /dev/sda /dev/sda1 overlaps with /dev/sda2 /dev/sda1 overlaps with /dev/sda4 /dev/sda2 ends after the last sector of /dev/sda /dev/sda2 overlaps with /dev/sda4 /dev/sda4 ends after the last sector of /dev/sda blkid -c /dev/null: ____________________________________________________________ /dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs" /dev/loop2: TYPE="squashfs" /dev/loop3: LABEL="F10-i686-Live" UUID="51e0bdfc-1a89-45e0-b993-9953dc69e6b8" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" /dev/dm-0: LABEL="F10-i686-Live" UUID="51e0bdfc-1a89-45e0-b993-9953dc69e6b8" TYPE="ext3" /dev/sda: SEC_TYPE="msdos" UUID="0000-0000" TYPE="vfat" /dev/dm-1: LABEL="F10-i686-Live" UUID="51e0bdfc-1a89-45e0-b993-9953dc69e6b8" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" =============================== "mount" output: =============================== /dev/mapper/live-rw on / type ext3 (rw,noatime) /proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) /dev/sr0 on /mnt/live type iso9660 (ro) varcacheyum on /var/cache/yum type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755) /tmp on /tmp type tmpfs (rw) vartmp on /var/tmp type tmpfs (rw) sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/liveuser/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=liveuser) /dev/sr1 on /media/FROGGER2 type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,uid=500) /dev/sda on /media/disk type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,uid=500) =========================== Unknown MBRs/Boot Sectors/etc ======================= Unknown MBR on /dev/sda 00000000 eb 3c 90 4d 53 44 4f 53 35 2e 30 00 02 08 01 00 |.<.MSDOS5.0.....| 00000010 02 00 02 03 51 f8 08 00 11 00 04 00 01 00 00 00 |....Q...........| 00000020 00 00 00 00 80 00 29 00 00 00 00 4e 4f 20 4e 41 |......)....NO NA| 00000030 4d 45 20 20 20 20 46 41 54 31 32 20 20 20 33 c9 |ME FAT12 3.| 00000040 8e d1 bc f0 7b 8e d9 b8 00 20 8e c0 fc bd 00 7c |....{.... .....|| 00000050 38 4e 24 7d 24 8b c1 99 e8 3c 01 72 1c 83 eb 3a |8N$}$....<.r...:| 00000060 66 a1 1c 7c 26 66 3b 07 26 8a 57 fc 75 06 80 ca |f..|&f;.&.W.u...| 00000070 02 88 56 02 80 c3 10 73 eb 33 c9 8a 46 10 98 f7 |..V....s.3..F...| 00000080 66 16 03 46 1c 13 56 1e 03 46 0e 13 d1 8b 76 11 |f..F..V..F....v.| 00000090 60 89 46 fc 89 56 fe b8 20 00 f7 e6 8b 5e 0b 03 |`.F..V.. ....^..| 000000a0 c3 48 f7 f3 01 46 fc 11 4e fe 61 bf 00 00 e8 e6 |.H...F..N.a.....| 000000b0 00 72 39 26 38 2d 74 17 60 b1 0b be a1 7d f3 a6 |.r9&8-t.`....}..| 000000c0 61 74 32 4e 74 09 83 c7 20 3b fb 72 e6 eb dc a0 |at2Nt... ;.r....| 000000d0 fb 7d b4 7d 8b f0 ac 98 40 74 0c 48 74 13 b4 0e |.}.}....@t.Ht...| 000000e0 bb 07 00 cd 10 eb ef a0 fd 7d eb e6 a0 fc 7d eb |.........}....}.| 000000f0 e1 cd 16 cd 19 26 8b 55 1a 52 b0 01 bb 00 00 e8 |.....&.U.R......| 00000100 3b 00 72 e8 5b 8a 56 24 be 0b 7c 8b fc c7 46 f0 |;.r.[.V$..|...F.| 00000110 3d 7d c7 46 f4 29 7d 8c d9 89 4e f2 89 4e f6 c6 |=}.F.)}...N..N..| 00000120 06 96 7d cb ea 03 00 00 20 0f b6 c8 66 8b 46 f8 |..}..... ...f.F.| 00000130 66 03 46 1c 66 8b d0 66 c1 ea 10 eb 5e 0f b6 c8 |f.F.f..f....^...| 00000140 4a 4a 8a 46 0d 32 e4 f7 e2 03 46 fc 13 56 fe eb |JJ.F.2....F..V..| 00000150 4a 52 50 06 53 6a 01 6a 10 91 8b 46 18 96 92 33 |JRP.Sj.j...F...3| 00000160 d2 f7 f6 91 f7 f6 42 87 ca f7 76 1a 8a f2 8a e8 |......B...v.....| 00000170 c0 cc 02 0a cc b8 01 02 80 7e 02 0e 75 04 b4 42 |.........~..u..B| 00000180 8b f4 8a 56 24 cd 13 61 61 72 0b 40 75 01 42 03 |...V$..aar.@u.B.| 00000190 5e 0b 49 75 06 f8 c3 41 bb 00 00 60 66 6a 00 eb |^.Iu...A...`fj..| 000001a0 b0 4e 54 4c 44 52 20 20 20 20 20 20 0d 0a 4e 54 |.NTLDR ..NT| 000001b0 4c 44 52 20 69 73 20 6d 69 73 73 69 6e 67 ff 0d |LDR is missing..| 000001c0 0a 44 69 73 6b 20 65 72 72 6f 72 ff 0d 0a 50 72 |.Disk error...Pr| 000001d0 65 73 73 20 61 6e 79 20 6b 65 79 20 74 6f 20 72 |ess any key to r| 000001e0 65 73 74 61 72 74 0d 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |estart..........| 000001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ac bf cc 55 aa |..............U.| 00000200 Unknown BootLoader on sda1 Unknown BootLoader on sda2 Unknown BootLoader on sda4 =======Devices which don't seem to have a corresponding hard drive============== sdb . sdc . sdd . sde . =============================== StdErr Messages: =============================== hexdump: /dev/sda1: No such file or directory hexdump: stdin: Bad file descriptor. hexdump: /dev/sda1: No such file or directory hexdump: /dev/sda1: Bad file descriptor /home/liveuser/Desktop/boot_info_script024.sh: line 1043: [: =: unary operator expected hexdump: /dev/sda2: No such file or directory hexdump: stdin: Bad file descriptor. hexdump: /dev/sda2: No such file or directory hexdump: /dev/sda2: Bad file descriptor /home/liveuser/Desktop/boot_info_script024.sh: line 1043: [: =: unary operator expected hexdump: /dev/sda4: No such file or directory hexdump: stdin: Bad file descriptor. hexdump: /dev/sda4: No such file or directory hexdump: /dev/sda4: Bad file descriptor /home/liveuser/Desktop/boot_info_script024.sh: line 1043: [: =: unary operator expected looks like fixboot has f**ed my harddrive, before fixboot i could still boot fedora. Now it look like everything it one mushed up partiton. i popped gparted into the computer and what i saw was one big 180gb partition. then i put acronis true image into the comp to try to back up some files and it found some unreadable sectors x_X is there a way to fix this? or is recovering my files out of the question |
I don't think I would blame "fixboot" at this point, because it looks to me like you most likely have a hardware problem, especially if Acronis also found bad sectors. In addition, fixboot returned some strange errors previously with "fixboot cannot find the system drive, or the drive specified is not valid". I noticed the script printed out your sda drive's MBR since it couldn't identify it, and it looks like "fixboot" somehow installed XP's boot sector code ("ntldr") to the MBR rather than XP partition's boot sector. But again, I would tend to think that's a result of a hardware issue. Can you go to the manufacturers website for your HDD and download their diagnostic software to check your HDD? You could also run some of the HDD tests that come on the Ultimate Boot CD, because that CD has many of the HDD diagnostic software that manufacturer's include with their HDDs. And since you don't know what the hardware issue could be, I would also recommend running "memtest86+" just to make sure your RAM is OK; that test comes with the Ultimate Boot CD and also comes with some Live CDs (like Ubuntu for example). If you really want to try and salvage some of your files from that HDD, you could try "dd_rescue" to image that HDD to another drive, and then work on it on another computer. Depending on your hardware issue though, you might have to pull that HDD out and plug it into another computer in order to work on it. Good luck and let me know what you find.
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well in order to run the seagate diagnostics tests on the drive i removed the drive and put in into another computer in order to run the program. the drive passed both the short and the long dst tests. I'll download ultimate boot cd and run the diagnostics again to see what i find. i was running memtest86+ yesterday, when i got to 50 percent i got tired of waiting and i cancled it to run the live image, ill redo the test again today also
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Ok i ran diagnostics on the hard drive. it passed the both the long and shorts driveselftests. then i ran msmtest86+ and it passed 3 times before i closed it. I ran testdisc and it shows my hard drive as having no partitions
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Actually, you shouldn't need testdisk to recover your partitions in your case; since you posted the results from the Boot Info Script which includes your partition configuration in units of sectors, we can use that to reconstruct your correct partition table. I would strongly recommend doing the following procedure while your HDD is attached to another computer, because I don't think you can trust yours at this point. So anyway, how about downloading the attached "partition_table.txt" file to your desktop, and then do the following as root user:
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fdisk -lu |
I ran this from the came comp since i dont have access to the other comp right now.
[liveuser@localhost ~]$ su [root@localhost liveuser]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x69737369 This doesn't look like a partition table Probably you selected the wrong device. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 ? 116388 126889 84344761 69 Unknown Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 ? 105915 222310 934940732+ 73 Unknown Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda3 ? 1 1 0 74 Unknown Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda4 1 213826 1717556736 0 Empty Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. Partition table entries are not in disk order [root@localhost liveuser]# cd /home/<username>/Desktop bash: username: No such file or directory [root@localhost liveuser]# cd /home/liveuser/Desktop [root@localhost Desktop]# sfdisk --no-reread -f /dev/sda < partition_table.txt Disk /dev/sda: 24321 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Old situation: Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/sda1 ? 116387+ 126888- 10501- 84344761 69 Unknown start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (68,13,10) end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (288,115,43) /dev/sda2 ? 105914+ 222309- 116395- 934940732+ 73 Unknown start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (371,114,37) end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (366,32,33) /dev/sda3 ? 0+ 0- 0 0 74 Unknown /dev/sda4 0 213825- 213826- 1717556736 0 Empty start: (c,h,s) expected (0,0,1) found (0,0,0) end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (0,0,0) New situation: Units = sectors of 512 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #sectors Id System /dev/sda1 * 63 265377734 265377672 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 265377735 370233989 104856255 83 Linux /dev/sda3 370233990 390716864 20482875 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 Empty /dev/sda5 370234053 390716864 20482812 b W95 FAT32 Successfully wrote the new partition table Re-reading the partition table ... If you created or changed a DOS partition, /dev/foo7, say, then use dd(1) to zero the first 512 bytes: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo7 bs=512 count=1 (See fdisk(8).) [root@localhost Desktop]# fdisk -lu Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders, total 390721968 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x69737369 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 63 265377734 132688836 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 265377735 370233989 52428127+ 83 Linux /dev/sda3 370233990 390716864 10241437+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 370234053 390716864 10241406 b W95 FAT32 [root@localhost Desktop]# sfdisk -d # partition table of /dev/sda unit: sectors /dev/sda1 : start= 63, size=265377672, Id= 7, bootable /dev/sda2 : start=265377735, size=104856255, Id=83 /dev/sda3 : start=370233990, size= 20482875, Id= f /dev/sda4 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0 /dev/sda5 : start=370234053, size= 20482812, Id= b [root@localhost Desktop]# parted -l Model: ATA ST3200822AS (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 200GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 136GB 136GB primary ntfs boot 2 136GB 190GB 53.7GB primary ext3 3 190GB 200GB 10.5GB extended lba 5 190GB 200GB 10.5GB logical fat32 Model: Linux device-mapper (dm) Disk /dev/mapper/live-osimg-min: 3221MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: loop Number Start End Size File system Flags 1 0.00B 3221MB 3221MB ext3 Model: Linux device-mapper (dm) Disk /dev/mapper/live-rw: 3221MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: loop Number Start End Size File system Flags 1 0.00B 3221MB 3221MB ext3 Warning: Unable to open /dev/sr0 read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sr0 has been opened read-only. Error: /dev/sr0: unrecognised disk label [root@localhost Desktop]# ill restart now and see how things go |
i didnt realize that i ran those last 3 commands before restarting. well i restarted and it wouldnt boot, so i used super grub disk to boot fedora and it works now. here are the outcomes of those 3 promts after a restart
[root@localhost Andrew]# fdisk -lu Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders, total 390721968 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x69737369 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 63 265377734 132688836 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 265377735 370233989 52428127+ 83 Linux /dev/sda3 370233990 390716864 10241437+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 370234053 390716864 10241406 b W95 FAT32 [root@localhost Andrew]# sfdisk -d # partition table of /dev/sda unit: sectors /dev/sda1 : start= 63, size=265377672, Id= 7, bootable /dev/sda2 : start=265377735, size=104856255, Id=83 /dev/sda3 : start=370233990, size= 20482875, Id= f /dev/sda4 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0 /dev/sda5 : start=370234053, size= 20482812, Id= b [root@localhost Andrew]# parted -l Model: ATA ST3200822AS (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 200GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 136GB 136GB primary ntfs boot 2 136GB 190GB 53.7GB primary ext3 3 190GB 200GB 10.5GB extended lba 5 190GB 200GB 10.5GB logical fat32 Warning: Unable to open /dev/sr0 read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sr0 has been opened read-only. im going to see if i can get supergrubdisk to boot windows |
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[root@localhost Andrew]# hexdump -s 128 -n -e '"x\n"' /dev/sda1 [root@localhost Andrew]# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt && ls -l /mnt total 2092311 drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2008-12-19 19:21 7e8ea4b883cf0cbf43c3c9130fe8a6 -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2005-03-02 16:57 AUTOEXEC.BAT drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 2008-03-26 00:15 Boot -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 338 2008-03-26 00:15 Boot.BAK -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 338 2008-08-30 21:47 boot.ini -rwxrwxrwx 2 root root 338 2008-03-26 00:15 Boot.ini.saved -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 438840 2006-11-02 01:53 bootmgr -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8192 2008-03-26 00:15 BOOTSECT.BAK -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 104 2008-07-10 16:58 change.bat -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1401 2009-01-07 22:07 cmdline.txt drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 163840 2009-01-24 23:18 Config.Msi -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2005-03-02 16:57 CONFIG.SYS drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 2008-03-28 19:20 Documents and Settings drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2008-04-08 22:26 Downloads drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2008-03-08 13:44 EPSONREG drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 2008-04-19 16:46 Fraps -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2137833472 2009-01-25 00:03 hiberfil.sys drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2008-03-14 20:16 ijji drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2008-12-31 20:28 Intel -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2005-03-02 16:57 IO.SYS -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 443 2008-03-08 14:31 IPH.PH -rwxrwxrwx 2 root root 3379200 2005-05-03 05:00 logonui_blue.exe -rwxrwxrwx 2 root root 332 2007-01-28 09:07 logon uninstall.reg -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 184370 2004-08-18 21:38 macshift.exe -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2005-03-02 16:57 MSDOS.SYS drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2008-05-17 20:09 Nexon -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 47564 2004-08-04 05:00 NTDETECT.COM -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 250032 2004-08-04 05:00 ntldr drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28672 2009-01-17 19:52 Program Files drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2008-03-27 07:54 $RECYCLE.BIN drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 2008-07-17 10:06 RECYCLER drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2008-06-23 19:07 Sierra -rwxrwxrwx 2 root root 268 2008-05-28 22:57 sqmdata00.sqm -rwxrwxrwx 2 root root 268 2008-05-31 23:19 sqmdata01.sqm -rwxrwxrwx 2 root root 268 2008-06-01 21:40 sqmdata02.sqm -rwxrwxrwx 2 root root 268 2008-06-03 19:15 sqmdata03.sqm -rwxrwxrwx 2 root root 244 2008-05-28 22:57 sqmnoopt00.sqm -rwxrwxrwx 2 root root 244 2008-05-31 23:19 sqmnoopt01.sqm -rwxrwxrwx 2 root root 244 2008-06-01 21:40 sqmnoopt02.sqm -rwxrwxrwx 2 root root 244 2008-06-03 19:15 sqmnoopt03.sqm drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 2008-03-08 12:42 System Volume Information drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 147456 2009-01-18 17:06 WINDOWS windows still can not be booted, it just reboot when i try to boot into windows |
i tried to boot xp with using
rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 but it didnt not work. then i tried to boot xo with super grub disk, still did not work. i tried to use recovery console to fix boot again, and it did now work and i had to re write my partitions again. any ideas? |
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