Serious Data Loss -- Live CD Installer

[Billy Charlton]

No.  Unfortunately,  booting the Live CD and trying to mount /dev/hda1 
fails.  The partition is visible but linux doesn't recognize it as an 
NTFS partition.  (I've made sure the partition has label 0x7, which is 
HPFS/NTFS).

After two hours googling, I've also tried some other things, like 
running "ntfsresize --info --force /dev/hda1" (from ntfsresize FAQ).  It 
can't recognize the partition as NTFS.

I don't see why the Windows partition would have been marked "Unknown" 
by ubiquity, even if the resizing action failed.  Why isn't the 
partition seen as NTFS anyway?  :-(

p.s. Of course this never happens to my *own* computer, only when I'm 
trying to show someone how great Ubuntu is.  I've probably resized fifty 
hard drives without any problems before.  Ugh.

Thanks for you help.
Billy




John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> On 5/19/06, Billy Charlton <billy at trigby.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Is it possible to read the partition? i.e. if you boot the LiveCD
> again can you mount /dev/hda1 as an NTFS partition?
>
> If this is the case you will probably be able to do the equivalent of
> an "fdisk /mbr" to get XP back. See:
>   http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=215902
> for an explanation of how to do this under XP.
>