Re: 8.04 dual-boot w/ XP: - installation problems
- From: Eberhard Roloff <tuxebi@xxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:03:03 +0200
Alec Ross schrieb:
Hi,First of all, you should check whether your XP partitions still exist
I've just installed 8.04 from a DVD. I wanted to get a dual boot with
an existing XP installation.
During the (default) partitioning, I had an error reporting that some
data could not be written back to disk.
I went back to the previous page, and re-tried. This time no failure
was reported.
However, on booting, and entering grub, the only OSs listed are Ubuntu:
8.04 Kernel 2.6 ...
" (recovery ...
", memtest86+
Is this showing that the earlier error has lost my XP partition? What,
if anything, might I do to attempt recovery?
(or not).
Either use a CD-Boot Disk, ex. damssmalllinux, Ubuntu, Knoppix, RIP
Linux (recovery is possible Linux) ...
or, you use your existing ubuntu and use a commandline, then ex.
sudo cfdisk /dev/sda , asuming that your disk in question is /dev/sda.
This will show you, what partitions are seen on that disk. XP partions
are usually labelled as "ntfs" or, very rare nowadays, "fat32", "vfat"
(or similar).
gparted will do, as well.
Depending on the results you can either adjust grub to include the
existing XP install and proceed from there. Or, if there is none, I am
afraid, that you are one of the lucky guys that work with Linux and
ONLY with Linux ;-)), i.e. your installation and data will be gone.
If the latter is the case, you can try with tools like RIP Linux, but
imho, while your mileage will vary, your chances to recover XP ntfs
data from overwritten partions is close to null.
But this is no disaster, since you can always play back your backups
that you made before you even thought about repartitioning your
harddisk, did you?
Kind regards and good luch
Eberhard
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