Unable to access windows partition
 

Hi I have just installed fedora core7 on my system, first time.. But i can access my window partition

On the boot option i chose "use free space on selected drives and create default layout"

I have two hards drive, one completely empty and one with the windows and files on..

After installing ferdora core i can not find my windows partition..

Here is what my fstab file looks like:

dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
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
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0


if type df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
146G 3.5G 135G 3% /
/dev/sdb1 99M 12M 82M 13% /boot
tmpfs 759M 0 759M 0% /dev/shm


I have two 146GB hardives. So i think (hope) the windows partition is still there some where..

Can anyone help?

Look at "sudo /sbin/fdisk -l". You fstab doesn't indicate which device is being used because "LABEL=" is used instead of a device node. The only indication is /dev/sdb1 used for boot which indicates that the second drive was used to install linux. You may only need to add and entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst to boot windows.

My windows entry looks like this:
Your rootnoverify will be different. Use the "root (hdN,N)" value from the Linux section. The chainloader line is for when windows is on the first partition of the first disk drive.

Magic thank you that worked a treat, I was starting to get worried that the linux install had deleted it.... Still have not quite worked out yet hoe to configure grub.. I tried using settings similar to yours but it didn't work..

sudo /sbin/fdisk -l gives