Re: my NTFS disk broken by Grub Legacy

2007-02-02 Thread Olle Bergkvist
Hello again. I'm sorry i was a bit mad last time. I understand that Grub is working, and Supergrubdisk is working too. It was me who made a mistake. Or two. Anyway, did a little research myself within linux and were able to fix it. Scott Leerssen wrote >NT stores a copy of its boot

Re: my NTFS disk broken by Grub Legacy

2007-01-28 Thread Uwe Dippel
Olle Bergkvist wrote: >What I'd do, is booting Knoppix, check if that partition shows as potential >mount on the desktop (hda1, eventually). If not, I'd do >fdisk /dev/hda (or whatever it is, probably hda or sda). And I'd do an 'su' >on the terminal as well, before. >Then we can see what your

Re: Re: my NTFS disk broken by Grub Legacy

2007-01-28 Thread Olle Bergkvist
>What I'd do, is booting Knoppix, check if that partition shows as potential >>mount on the desktop (hda1, eventually). If not, I'd do >fdisk /dev/hda (or whatever it is, probably hda or sda). And I'd do an 'su' >>on the terminal as well, before. >Then we can see what your disk contains. >Which

Re: my NTFS disk broken by Grub Legacy

2007-01-27 Thread Uwe Dippel
Olle Bergkvist wrote: If you know any good file system repairing programs, or are able to program one yourself, please tell me. A good one ? I dunno. I surely booted KNOPPIX. Just last week I could repair by booting to it and copy ntldr and ntdetect.com to a system that got stuck at that famo

Re: Re: my NTFS disk broken by Grub Legacy

2007-01-26 Thread Olle Bergkvist
Thanks for the fast answers. >NT stores a copy of its boot block in the last sector of the boot partition, >so you may be able to get your NTFS back by booting a windows recovery CD. No, i have tried booting with the recovery CD. But the CD doesnt recognize the first partition as NTFS.

Re: my NTFS disk broken by Grub Legacy

2007-01-24 Thread Adrián
> Then i executed > "setup (hd0,0)" > to install on the NTFS partitoion. When overwriting your windows partition boot with a grub installation this should work: Download Super Grub Disk (cdrom version) at http://supergrub.forjamari.linex.org burn it into a cdrom. Boot with it. Select: Windows ->

Re: my NTFS disk broken by Grub Legacy

2007-01-24 Thread Scott Leerssen
NT stores a copy of its boot block in the last sector of the boot partition, so you may be able to get your NTFS back by booting a windows recovery CD. On Jan 24, 2007, at 11:47 AM, Olle Bergkvist wrote: Hello Gnu people! I have a problem; I cant access my NTFS file system with Windows XP