Serious Data Loss -- Live CD Installer

[Billy Charlton]

I see from bug notes on Launchpad that there were some ugly partition 
mangling bugs in Dapper Beta 1.  I double-checked and I am definitely 
using Beta 2.   So, this problem seems to still exist.




Billy Charlton wrote:
> 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
>
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> 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.
>>
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