Serious Data Loss -- Live CD Installer
Billy Charlton
billy at trigby.com
Fri May 19 04:37:39 BST 2006
So I just attempted installing Dapper Beta 2 on my partner's PC. Pretty
normal HP PC with Windows XP.
- Used Dapper Beta 2 - live CD
- GUI Installer
- Tried to resize /dev/hda1 to make room for a fresh install of Dapper
- Clicked "next" after dragging resizer widget on partition. The
installer brought up a dialog box "Resizing Partition" which was
immediately followed by dialog "Resizing Failed". Now drive shows two
partitions, both type "unknown", first partition size was original size
- 1, 2nd partition size 1.
Now machine won't boot Windows XP. I've tried using fdisk from live cd
to set partition type to HPFS/NTFS, resetting size to full disk size,
but still says unbootable.
a) Am I now in the doghouse, having hosed the PC?
b) Is there any way to get XP back?
c) Is there a known bug in the Live CD installer for resizing NTFS, or
is this something new?
Thanks... happy to provide a lot more info, please let me know what else
is needed. Hopefully my loss can help prevent this happening to other
users?
Cheers
Billy
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