From: C'est Pierre (cestpierre_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Oct 13 2006 - 13:49:40 CEST
Message-ID: <5485940d0610130449y22ae36fr5a2e37386f97c3be@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:49:40 +0100 From: "C'est Pierre" <cestpierre@gmail.com> Subject: [suse-sles-e] windows partition damaged
Hello,
I had this accident, while trying to install SLES 9 for a multi-boot
setup. I have had windows and fedora previously so I decided to
install SLES 9 into it instead of fedora.
I had my 40gb disk like disk:
/dev/hda1 - windows 30gb
/dev/hda5 - linux ~10gb
During SLES install, the screen partitioning screen shown it had
"pre-defined" actions, among which was one to resize the windows
partition, but I've gone into the the "Custom" and "Expert" scheme,
and chose I want only the partition hda5 and put lvm on it as well as
boot partition.
After I rebooted, the windows partition no longer booted. I've set an
entry into grub, like this:
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive
It didn't work. I decided to go with a XP cd and use it's rescue
console and run fixmbr and fixboot. No luck. I tried installing lilo
to atempt fixing it, I endedup with 2 bootloaders, when I'd hit the
entry for windows inside grub, lilo would be called with it's own
entries and the one for windows, didn't work as well.
So far, I can still access the disk's data and that's the only light on it.
Any help or alternative ideas would be greatly appreciated!
Pierre
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