On Thursday 04 September 2003 10:34 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? > > 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: > > 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? > > Thanks in advance for any pointer, > > Best regards, > > Mathieu.
Please post a copy of your /etc/fstab file. For the record, I am pretty sure that Mandrake does not mount an ntfs partition using /mnt/windows, more like /mnt/win_c or something like that. Could be the fstab settings are not correct under the entry for windows. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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