Hi All I have a dual boot box, Intel 2.5GHZ,2gig ram, 250G HDD dual booting XP and DEbian 5.0.
Today morning, it did not boot WIN when I wanted to do some Office work (presentation with AtuoCad drgs). Evening I returned, booted into Debian without any problem, browsed net, e mailed. Now from Debian side I am able to see WIN Partitions and see the files also. I can view pictures, play movies etc, but WIN will not boot. I face a blue screen with message " UNMOUNTABLE BOOT VOLUME" Probebly due to a new Hardware not properly installed, blah, blah... it goes on, I have not installed any new hardware. But fdisk gives following output --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- debian:/home/srikanth# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xfe4efe4e Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 3825 30724281 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 3826 30401 213471720 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 3826 10454 53247411 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda6 10455 17083 53247411 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda7 17084 23712 53247411 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda8 23713 27536 30716248+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda9 27537 30284 22073278+ 83 Linux /dev/sda10 30285 30401 939771 82 Linux swap / Solaris debian:/home/srikanth# debian:/home/srikanth# fdisk -l /dev/sda1 Disk /dev/sda1: 31.4 GB, 31461663744 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3824 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x69205244 This doesn't look like a partition table Probably you selected the wrong device. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1p1 ? 13578 119522 850995205 72 Unknown Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda1p2 ? 45382 79243 271987362 74 Unknown Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda1p3 ? 10499 10499 0 65 Novell Netware 386 Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda1p4 167628 167631 25817+ 0 Empty Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. Partition table entries are not in disk order debian:/home/srikanth# fdisk -l /dev/sda5 Disk /dev/sda5: 54.5 GB, 54525348864 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 6628 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x69205244 This doesn't look like a partition table Probably you selected the wrong device. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda5p1 ? 13578 119522 850995205 72 Unknown Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda5p2 ? 45382 79243 271987362 74 Unknown Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda5p3 ? 10499 10499 0 65 Novell Netware 386 Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda5p4 167628 167631 25817+ 0 Empty Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. Partition table entries are not in disk order ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Looking at the above, can anyone guide me what is to be done and what is wrong and what happened in WIndows side? Till now I am unable to boot WIN. Please help . Thanking you in advance, Srikanth NS ISRO, Trivandrum _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc