On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 16:08 -0600, Timothy Wood wrote:
> That would explain the small 16.69 MB partition with an unknown (to
> gparted) filesystem. I've tried the following with grub.
> menuentry "Windows 7" {
> set root='(hd0,X)'
> chainloader +1
> }
> Where I've replaced X with various numbers.
> When it's 1, I get the BOOTMGR missing error.
> 2, grub says "no such partition."
> 3 loads the recovery system.
> 4, 5, and 6, grub says, "invalid signature."
>
> This is what my hard drive looks like at the moment from within
> gparted, in order from front to back of the drive space.
> /dev/sda1 is ntfs, my windows partition. It has a boot flag.
> /dev/sda2 is an extended partition containing /dev/sda5 and /dev/sda6
> /dev/sda5 is ext4, Ubuntu. No flags.
> /dev/sda6 is linux-swap. No flags
> /dev/sda3 is fat32, 10 gigabytes. I'm pretty sure this is the
> recovery partition because grub think's it's "Windows Vista (loader)".
> Has the "hidden" flag.
> /dev/sda4 is unknown, and a small 16.7 megabytes. Also "hidden" flag.
>
> I've never touched or moved sda3 or sda4 since I've had the computer.
> So if /dev/sda4 is the BOOTMGR, I've never touched it. Would Windows
> 7, having been partially "recovered," not be looking for BOOTMGR way
> back towards the end of the disk? Or would it have been reinstalled
> on the next available partition, my linux one?
>
> Timothy
You may want to try running bootinfoscript
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript
It will give you a list of your partitions with any boot files it finds
in them. Look for the one with /bootmgr that is your Windows boot
partition.
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Bill Miller
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