My Linux partitions are lost.
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Thu May 13 12:46:00 UTC 2004
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>Hi Scott,
>
>Sorry for delayed reply, i was out of station.
>
>I booted in rescue mode and following is the output of 'fdisk -l
>/dev/hda';
>
>sh-2.05b# fdisk -l /dev/hda
>omitting empty partition (5)
>
>Disk /dev/hda : 40.0GB, 40007761920 bytes
>255 heads, 63 sectors/tracks, 4864 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>/dev/hda1 * 1 1216 9767488+ 7
>HPFS/NTFS
>/dev/hda2 1217 4864 29302560 f Win95
>Ext'd (LBA)
>/dev/hda3 2433 4864 19535008+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
>/dev/hda5 1217 1229 104359+ 83 Linux
>/dev/hda6 1230 2302 8618841 83 Linux
>/dev/hda7 2303 2432 1044193+ 82 Linux swap
>sh-2.05b#
>
>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.
>
>
>
These are not overlapping. The partition numbers are out of sequence
for physical placement is the only oddity I see. hda4 is usually
reserved for the extended partition label and yours uses hda2. The
extended partition will include all the cylinders that are in the later
partitons. hda3 is also usually a primary partiton, but I have seen this
in the past so not really of concern
>Thanks and Regards,
>Vikas
>
>Vikas.Bhasin at britishairways.com wrote:
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>>Is there any way by which i can preserve my previous Linux installation
>>and get the GRUB in MBR. Or do I have to reinstall Linux?
>>
>>Thanks and Regards,
>>Vikas
>>
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>There is a good chance XP trashed the linux partitions. Get the rescue
>disk booted and send us the output of "fdisk -l /dev/hda", modified for
>the appropriate hard drive.
>
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>Scott Burns
>Mirrabooka Systems
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