I installed Fedora tonight, and then I rebooted, and was going to finish something in XP, and when I got passes the boot screen, it told me a bunch of errors, like C:/yadayada......could not be recovered.

What happened. Could it be that I did it myself when I put the boot loader at the beginning of my Windows Hard Drive......oh yeah....I have two hard drives. A 120 - Windows, and now a Fedora - 20 gig.

i would guess that if you put the boot partition and boot loader on your 120G drive, then you made the MBR fubar for winXP

Is there anyway to get some of my data off of that hard drive, or install w/o losing any data.....I am getting rid of windows for good, but you know, still need some files...

well i guess you could try to mount the drive in fedora
and see if you can see you files and access them
otherwise just take out your linux drive and install the winxp bootloader again or just install winxp again and don't format the drive

this is all i can think off

Fedora removed Windows!!!!!!!!!
Wow cool!!!!!

During the install, did you click on the take over disk yada yada, or use empty space yada yada??

Follow the instructions at this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=162190

then you can rejoice in your loss!

Read the screen.

@moeminhtun, if you are going to post, try to make yourself helpful or at least constructive... you are not helping the original poster at all and making fun of his problems...

@Aragolas, windows 2000 and XP has a repair mode. Insert Windows XP, boot and choose Repair mode. There, choose command line, then help. A list of possible ways to fix your system will be shown. Try fixboot .

If it still does not work, boot again with XP's disk and choose automatic repair mode. This might be dangerous and some data could be lost. If you want to mount your WindowsXP partitions under Fedora, open your /etc/fstab adding the following lines for write/read permissions:

The above line will mount your first HD slice (C:\) to /mnt/win_c. You must have created the folder first. Do it now if you have not done it yet:

mkdir /mnt/win_c

You will need to either reboot or mount the device for the changes on fstab work.

Good luck!

P.S: from now on, you might consider doing at least three partitions: First for Windows, a small one only for the Operating System (C:\) a bigger one of FAT32 to use with both XP and Linux (D:\) and a Linux Partition....

megamans comments are good. try reading ur fedora fstab file with an editor(vim /etc/fstab) if fedora install didn't do away with the xp partition try his suggestions. with the recovery console off ur xp install cd u can repair the mbr for xp and u could boot fedora with the boot floppy u made when installing it.
after that u can fix ur linux boot loader for lilo or grub so it boots correctly or u can simply continue to boot fedora with the flopppy and leave the mbr to xp. good luck.

also, if all it did was hurt your boot partition, fdisk /mbr just might work. you'll have to reinstall fedora, but you'll have your windows partition back. That is, of course, if the boot loader was all that was damaged.

Just to clarify....I have 2 hard drives.....a 120 gb that i used for windows....key word....used...hehe....and a 20 gb that i am using as we speak that has Fedora on it...and thanks for the info....I just had a bunch of video and music files, that I wanted to put over and put them on a dvd or cd... Hopefully....the stupid Microsoft Product that I 'purchased' did not delete that entire drive...

I tried the fix mbr command, and that didn't work....it got passed my xp boot screen, then all of the error messages came up....I believe they said something to the sort of....Delayed Time Write or Failed, or something like that....and also had.....c:/yada could not be recovered.

I was actually going to try to talk to Microsoft, but I needed a Product key, but since I can't get to Windows to find that out, that plan got flushed down the toilet.

He won't have to reinstall fedora, just lilo or grub which can be done from a rescue CD or live eval version. Or even the redhat install CD I imagine.

you can mount your window partition while in fedora get your files and format windows drive with unix tools.

anyone got a quick link for that.....and if you have any other good links for commands, and programming....it would be much appreciated....I have tried to use some of my knowledge from my old red hat 7 days....but a lot of it has dwendled away....thanks to Microsuck....

did you add to your /etc/fstab ?
and if you did then reboot and see if your files in /mnt/win_c
or is your windows partition a NTFS filesystem? -theres no support for ntfs in linux is there?