partition nightmares

jim ruxton cinetron at passport.ca
Thu Jul 27 00:12:00 UTC 2006


> You can use FDISK to recover the MBR. The command is "FDISK /MBR".
Won't this command overwrite my Grub bootloader as well? 
jim
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> Hi, I recently reinstalled Fedora (went from 3 to 5) . Rather than doing
> an upgrade I did a complete reinstall. Everything went well till I
> decided to create a FAT32 partition on my Windows partition . I dual
> boot this machine. I was using Partition Magic while trying to create
> the FAT32 partition. Next time I booted using Grub into my Windows
> partition Windows wouldn't load. My files are still there and I can
> mount them using ntfsmount in linux but can't start windows. When I load
> the windows systems CD that came with my laptop I can't start Windows
> either. I really don't want to wipe my nice new FC5 to reload Windows.
> Any thoughts what I can do to get Windows back? Here is the output of
> fdisk -l ? Thanks.
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> jim
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> Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *        3951        7296    26876713+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2               1          13      104391   83  Linux
> /dev/hda3              14        3950    31623952+  8e  Linux LVM
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> Partition table entries are not in disk order
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> Disk /dev/dm-0: 31.2 GB, 31272730624 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3802 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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> Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table
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> Disk /dev/dm-1: 1073 MB, 1073741824 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 130 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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> Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
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