-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 September 4, 2003 08:34 pm, Mathieu Frenette wrote: > Hi everybody! > > I have a Toshiba laptop with Windows XP installed on a 30GB hard > drive (with a single NTFS partition). I wanted to install Mandrake > 9.1 with dual boot handled by LILO. I therefore installed Mandrake > with the "resize Windows partition" option. However, it looks like > I've lost everything that was on this partition. Is it because, > during a resize, only data on a FAT partition can be preserved, and > not with NTFS?
I'm not sure why that would be. Well I am but that's like rubbing salt into an open wound. :-) I just did a resize and Mandrake Cooker (9.2RC1) install for a friend Monday, and everything was still where it was supposed to be afterward. Just in a smaller space than before. Did you defrag the disk first? What space is Mandrake reporting that it's using? The whole disk? Or did you just forget to introduce the boot loader to Windows from the start? You can have a look at the disk layout from your desktop; just look in the Mandrake Control Center at the section labeled "mount points" and find "diskdrake." You could also call that utility directly by holding down the "Alt" button on your keyboard and clicking F2 then typing the name in the dialog you'll get and providing the root password when asked. Don't worry about the "back up your data" warning since you aren't going to change anything just yet. You're only going to take copious notes about the partition scheme for the drive. then post the details here. _All_ of the details; file system type (just click the sections of the display and copy what's displayed on the right panel about the partitions. It's all important. Course you could always just open a terminal and type; mount then hit enter. Copy and paste what you get from there. The in that same terminal type; df -l <enter> and paste that here too. Six of one and half a dozen of the other. Either way is fine. <g> > When I do an "ls /mnt/windows", it gives the error "ls: reading > directory /mnt/windows: Input/output error". Also, when I boot with a > DOS boot disk, I can not even see any drive letter (such as C:, > D:...) but only the floppy drive A: Anyone that's doing a dual boot install on an existing Windows disk should always do all of their reading before they start. Read the list, ask the questions, read the documentation that on the install disks and _remember_ the answers as best you can. Above all else; ************************************************************** don't be afraid to ask questions before you dive in and screw things up ************************************************************** You may have lost the Windows install but maybe not. Is this one of those proprietary "NO INSTALL DISK" just restore disks machines, or is it a real computer? If it's the former what brand and model? If the latter, share some details about the system, tell the list _exactly_ what you did in step by step fashion and some one of these fine people will probably be able to help in the rescue effort. > So I guess the other part of my question is, if I want to reinstall > Windows XP, how can I get back my C: drive letter in the first place? Windows always calls the disk it's installed on C:/ no matter where the hell it really is. That's the least of your worries at the moment. > Thanks in advance for any pointer, > > Best regards, > > Mathieu. Peace; and best of luck. - -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-4mdk 22:28:40 up 14:51, 1 user, load average: 0.18, 0.17, 0.17 "History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions." - -- Ted Koppel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/WBktG11CaRuZZSIRAh+DAJ9bbVUuF1Y8MdSfVHZURq2uyI7hPwCgiI4m cV3nzPagXHaQYj8yPvfO0TA= =8erg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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