how can I recover windows xp professional

rblampain · 12-15-2013, 11:40 PM

I have an old Toshiba Tecra on which I installed Debian 6 after keeping only the recovery Windows partition thinking that was all Windows would need to re-invade the PC but the boot loader did not see Windows and now has only the options to load Debian 6.

I'd like to recover Windows to test HTML under XP, can anyone suggest how to proceed or point to a suitable site or link?

(I realize I will have to recreate the working partition for Windows but I have nothing important on that machine)

Thank you for your help.

JJJCR · 12-16-2013, 12:24 AM

check out this link, it might give you some idea:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/13527...dows-partition

or check out this previous thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...n-help-841685/

nickmh · 12-16-2013, 01:25 AM

You might be able to get a run time of Explorer running under wine in your Deb install?

allend · 12-16-2013, 06:14 AM

If the recovery partition is still intact, this may help.
http://www.mytoshiba.com.au/support/items/faq/71

jefro · 12-16-2013, 02:57 PM

Ideas.

One is to see if you can simply mark the recovery as active and boot to it.

Another is to see if the data is in some common form like a norton ghost image file or if it is all there just waiting to use dd or some other file transfer.

Worse comes to worse you may be able to purchase a cd/dvd to recover it to OEM.

Might have to boot to a bartsPE disk and see if there is a tool on the recovery part that creates a cd or dvd.

schneidz · 12-16-2013, 03:04 PM

what does

Code:

sudo fdisk -l

provide you ?
if it is still there you can probably boot it by manually typing grub commands. heres my grub.conf:

Code:

[schneidz@hyper stuff]$ sudo cat /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 have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,2)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_hyper-lv_root
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.43.8-1.fc15.x86_64)
	root (hd0,2)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.43.8-1.fc15.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_hyper-lv_root rhgb quiet SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 KEYTABLE=us
	root (hd0,2)
	initrd /initramfs-2.6.43.8-1.fc15.x86_64.img
title Fedora (2.6.41.9-1.fc15.x86_64)
	root (hd0,2)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.41.9-1.fc15.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_hyper-lv_root rhgb quiet SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 KEYTABLE=us
	root (hd0,2)
	initrd /initramfs-2.6.41.9-1.fc15.x86_64.img
title Fedora (2.6.41.4-1.fc15.x86_64)
	root (hd0,2)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.41.4-1.fc15.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_hyper-lv_root rhgb quiet SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 KEYTABLE=us
	root (hd0,2)
	initrd /initramfs-2.6.41.4-1.fc15.x86_64.img
title win-xp
	rootnoverify (hd0,1)
	chainloader +1
title factory default (recovery)
        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
        chainloader +1