swap partition deleted

[Karl F. Larsen]

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JYOTI SHEORAN wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
	I know English is not your language but your doing things that are
harmful to your system.

	When you installed Ubuntu it's grub worked. Then you deleted the swap
partition and grub stopped working. I understand why.

	Then you loaded another Linux and now it's grub works. This is because
it's grub over wrote the Ubuntu grub.


	You have a real mess and it will be a problem to sort out. I suggest
you keep the open solaris grub working and add the ubuntu system to it's
grub. Then everything will work. Can you do that?


73 Karl


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
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