R: I need Help RedHat-Windows XP

[ajay]

----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Hewitt <rhil at manordata.uklinux.net>
To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux <redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: R: I need Help RedHat-Windows XP


> On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 03:39, Roberto wrote:
> > Thank you very much for your reply.
> > I've just tried the  commands you told me to use in the last part of you
> > reply, but nothing seems to be changed.
> > In fact windows xp crashes with a blue screen that say that Session
Manager
> > Initialization has stopped in un unattended way, and so the system has
been
> > closed.
> > In these conditions I really can do nothing, I am not able to reinstall
> > windows without erasing its partition and with that all my important
data.
> > It's for this reason I asked you for a way to recover and save my
Windows
> > files from Linux, that is now the only os I can start.
> > Thank you again
>
> Roberto,
>
> Without installing support for it, Linux cannot read the NTFS filesystem
> that a modern MS Windows uses. Microsoft do not give out the details, so
> the support under Linux is effectively reverse-engineered and not as
> good as we would like.
>
> Do you have another computer running MS Windows? If so, what I would do
> is to take out the disc drive and put it as a second drive into the
> other computer. MS Windows will recognise this as a data drive and you
> can back up your files. Then you can re-install both MS Windows and
> Linux following Rick's good advice.
>
> Alternatively, there are recovery utilities that come with MS Windows.
> You would need to look up how to use these.
>
> Almost certainly, there is no damage to your MS Windows installation, it
> is just that it is not booting properly. This is probably because the
> settings in the Linux boot loader (called grub) are not quite correct
> for your particular MS Windows installation. I dual boot with MS Windows
> 2000 but XP behaves somewhat differently, but if under Linux you can do
> these commands as root and send us the output I'm sure people on this
> list can help. Do "less /boot/grub/grub.conf" (you can scroll up and
> down with the arrow keys and "q" will quit). This file shows how it is
> trying to boot. Also run "fdisk -l" (this gives the partition
> information for your hard disc).
>
> When installing any operating system it is a very good idea to have any
> existing important files backed up first.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Chris
>
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it will mount ntfs but in readonly mode which is sufficient to restore your
data.

rgds

ajay