swap partition deleted

[JYOTI SHEORAN]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:

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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
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yes..i will add ubuntu to open solaris bootloader and then will tell u the
result.
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