shampavman.cg wrote: > Hi, > > I had to remove FC7 in favor of windows since I had space crunch .. and > moved it over to another machine.. But now I have loads of data on > windows that I cannot lose...After FC was removed to get into windows I > had to use, > rootnoverify (.. ,...) cmd..
If I understand correctly, by removing FC7 you also removed the boot loader, which now prevents Windows from loading. I've fixed this before by inserting the Windows CD, entering Recovery Mode, and using "fixmbr" followed by "fixboot C:" commands. This reinstalls the Windows MBR and you can boot to Windows to copy or backup your data. > Can i do it via some Linux distro Live cd and just boot into grub and do > something and perhaps re-install grub with the necessary changes made? This is confusing, but FWIW I've done something similar before by booting via Ubuntu Live CD, mounting the Windows C: drive (whatever partition "sudo fdisk -l" tells you it is) to the /mnt directory, then copying the files to another media. HTH. Mark
