swap partition deleted

[JYOTI SHEORAN]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:31 PM, <p.echols at comcast.net> wrote:

>
> ----- "JYOTI SHEORAN" <sheoranjs24 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > i have a sata hard drive, in which i installed ubuntu, xp, vista, and
> > red hat linux.
> > i accidently deleted the swap partition n formatted it to ntfs in
> > vista.
> > now my ubuntu is not booting anymore.
> > i have xp on primary partition and all other on logical partition
> > i tried ubuntu live cd...it also shows my sata hard drive as
> > unallocated
> > how ever i am able to boot into xp, vista and red hat linux using
> > vista bootloader
> > in red hat linux also , my sata hard drive is shown unallocated. wat
> > to do now?
>
> See Derek's comments.  It does sound like more than just the Swap.
>
> > how to create a swap partiton? without reformatting my whole drive? my
> > hard drive is shown in vista and xp but not in any linux distro.
>
> To resize, create, delete, partitions you can use gparted.  I believe it is
> available on the ubuntu distro cd.  But I find the live CD more convenient.
>
> http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
>
> If you follow the link to clonezilla, you can also image your drive before
> you start . . . a VERY good idea.
>
> Note:  These are very powerful tools and you could easily hose your vista,
> xp and redhat partitions too.  The good news is that it will ask for
> confirmation before making changes. But that is not something you want to
> click past without being sure!
>
> Good luck.
>
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i tried knoppix live cd and gparted live cd, but after a sequence of steps
my lcd screen just went black with a message in the middle "out of range",
and the cd in the cd rom also stops rotating. i have viewsonic 19" lcd with
1440*900 resolution. model no. va1928wm.
one more thing.: nw i installed open solaris in one of primary partition,
and perhaps its bootloader overwitten ubuntu's. because earlier when i power
on my pc, ubuntu's bootloader shows up, but nw opensolaris bootloader shows
up. i ran xp, and made xp as the active partition, so that vista bootloader
loads first. nw red had linux is running, as i installed its bootloader in
its partition and not in the MBR, but ubuntu is not running. i tried it live
cd, bt still it shows my 1st hard drive as unallocated.
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