Re: PLAN failed strangely (wes: PLAN: surviving a Windows reinstall.)
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 09:30:55PM +0200, Elton Algera wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 01:32:23PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> >
> > Is there any diagnostic information I should gather? how?
Or is there a possible hardware problem -- one that lets Linux
work fine, lets Windows format partitions correctly, but does
not let it install? I did have a motherboard replaced recently.
>
>
> Yes, boot from the sarge installer disk, go to a terminal by pressing
> alt-F2 and do "fdisk -l".
> This gives you the current state of your partition table, then you know
> if windows did only format a partition or the whole disk instead.
It can't have formatted the whole disk (though I was worrked at the time),
because both Linuxes still boot fine. Windows' C: partition is perfectly
readable and writable by Linux, and is empty.
In case it's still of interest, this is the output of fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80054059008 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 155114 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 24975 12586896 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 25022 111563 43617168 5 Extended
/dev/hda3 113460 130114 8393962+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 138450 155104 8393962+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda5 25022 29150 2080417+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda6 31206 41550 5213092+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda7 43590 45661 1044225 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda8 49710 55941 3140707+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda9 60037 66269 3140707+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda10 70365 78684 4192965 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda11 86971 93203 3140707+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda12 109953 111563 811282+ 82 Linux swap
lovesong:/home/hendrik#
sarge is on /dev/hda3,
woody is on /dev/hda4,
and Windows is NOT on /dav/hda1
-- hendrik
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