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<br><font size=1 color=#800080 face="sans-serif">Subject: </font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Re: My Linux partitions are lost.</font>
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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Hi Scott,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Sorry for delayed reply, i was out of station.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I booted in rescue mode and following is the output of 'fdisk -l /dev/hda';</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">sh-2.05b# fdisk -l /dev/hda</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">omitting empty partition (5)</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Disk /dev/hda : 40.0GB, 40007761920 bytes</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">255 heads, 63 sectors/tracks, 4864 cylinders</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">/dev/hda1 * 1 1216 9767488+ 7 HPFS/NTFS</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">/dev/hda2 1217 4864 29302560 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">/dev/hda3 2433 4864 19535008+ 7 HPFS/NTFS</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">/dev/hda5 1217 1229 104359+ 83 Linux</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">/dev/hda6 1230 2302 8618841 83 Linux</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">/dev/hda7 2303 2432 1044193+ 82 Linux swap</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">sh-2.05b#</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">There are linux partitions but i'm not sure why the start and end of blocks are overlapping for different partitions. Looking at above output, do you think previous linux installation can be saved.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks and Regards,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Vikas</font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Vikas.Bhasin@britishairways.com wrote:<br>
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>Is there any way by which i can preserve my previous Linux installation<br>
>and get the GRUB in MBR. Or do I have to reinstall Linux?<br>
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>Thanks and Regards,<br>
>Vikas<br>
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There is a good chance XP trashed the linux partitions. Get the rescue<br>
disk booted and send us the output of "fdisk -l /dev/hda", modified for<br>
the appropriate hard drive.<br>
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<br><font size=2><tt>--<br>
Scott Burns<br>
Mirrabooka Systems<br>
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