[Ilugc] grub not able to detect window XP!
- From: raja.mallik@xxxxxxxxxxx (Raja Mallik)
- Date: Mon May 14 21:32:40 2007
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what does fsck /dev/sda1 report ?
#/sbin/fsck /dev/sda1
fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
fsck: fsck.ntfs: not found
/sbin/fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.ntfs for /dev/sda1
-Raja
On 5/13/07, Raja Mallik <raja.mallik@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear All,
I have dual boot PC with win XP/ FC5. Grub is running.
My windows boot partition is lost.
My windows boot partition is lost. I am getting Error 18: While loading
into
Windows at grub loader.
Also , while
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/win/
NTFS-fs error (device sda1): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.
NTFS-fs warning (device sda1): is_boot_sector_ntfs(): Invalid boot
sector
checksum.
NTFS-fs error (device sda1): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot
sector
is invalid.
NTFS-fs error (device sda1): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option
errors=recover not used. Aborting without trying to recover.
NTFS-fs error (device sda1): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.
-How do I retify this without losing my windows data?
Also ,
#fdisk -l shows...
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80032038912 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9730 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 3187 25599546 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 * 3188 3200 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 3201 9730 52452225 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
-Let me know..
-raja
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