Re: Where has my Windows partition gone?
On 11/13/2010 5:33 PM, John O Laoi 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
I don't know what may be available on other disks, but the PCLINUXOS
Live disk, in the live section (i.e., without actually installing
PCLos) will let you go to "More Applications>Configuration>Redo MBR"
and then you should be able to get your Windows back. It also
provides you with a nice boot screen, unlike Ubuntu's grub version.
(I don't remember what Debian's looks like.) I have used this to
get boot inputs for Debian and Ubuntu, as well as PCLos andthe Windows
XP which it already recognized. If you have something odd, like an
extra "ghost" version of some system showing up, it provides a text
version of the partition information which you can modify if you
need to. I am on a different computer right now, but I will send to
your address a copy of this text as it exists on my laptop. Note
that some lines are commented out, by me, as this was a "ghost"
problem created by Ubuntu, and showed up on their grub menu also.
--doug
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