Re: Where has my Windows partition gone?

[Davide Mancusi <arekfu@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 22:33:25 +0000
John O Laoi <brianolaoi@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I have a dual boot laptop running squeeze.
> 
> I update regularly.
> 
> I rarely use the Windows partition – I have not used it for several
> months.
> 
> However, it now appears to be gone, according to grub.
> At least, when I boot up, and get the blue screen with the list of
> options, the Windows one is not there.
> Instead I get a list of kernels
> 
> But “fdisk -l” says it is still there.
> 
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> 
> /dev/sda1               1          11       88326   de  Dell Utility
> 
> /dev/sda2   *          12        2622    20972857+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> 
> /dev/sda3            2623        5233    20972857+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> 
> /dev/sda4            5234       12161    55649160    5  Extended
> 
> /dev/sda5            5234        7191    15727603+  83  Linux
> 
> /dev/sda6            7192        7452     2096451   82  Linux swap /
> Solaris
> 
> /dev/sda7            7453       12161    37825011   83  Linux
> 
> 
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> John

	Do you have os-prober installed?

Cheers,
Davide

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