well i agree windows has screwed up your partitions,
you may be able to use partition commander to repair the damage, but as for salvaging
your data, most likely only windows data can be salvaged, im unsure how to salvage
data from linux partitions, the cause seems to be that when windows was writing to a
partition it misread the data table and over extended the partition it was writing to
ontop of another partition which happens to be your /root partition.
maybe you should add a small extended partition between your linux and windows
partitions. that way you may have a small buffer of protection against windows write
errors like the one you encountered, another thought is using vmware, however if you
intend to log online with windows using a virtual machine such as vmware would be a
bad idea.
have fun!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Sounds to me like Windows didnt recognise your partitions properly, and
> installed over the root partition of Linux.
>
> I've had this happen to me before. The only solution that I found was to
> re-install the whole lot, both OS's, making sure that windows recognised
> the partitions that were allocated to it.
>
>
>
> "Ingo P. Korndoerfer" wrote:
> >
> > dear mandrake community,
> >
> > i am utterly at loss with my laptop :
> >
> > - prehistory : installed some new softare on my windows partition.
> > (yeah, yeah .. i don't want to hear about it,
> > but the linux version of the program
> > gave me a segmentation fault)
> > maybe the disk got a little too full there. not sure.
> > abandonned this, logged out.
> >
> > - problem : can't get into my linux partition now anymore :
> >
> > partition check hda1 hda2 <>
> > VFS : Cannot open root device 03:05
> > Kernel Panic : VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 03:05
> >
> > what could be the problem ?
> >
> > - all the device drivers should be there since i have been working
> > with this laptop
> > under linux for some three months now.
> > - the mbr should be ok, since the boot process starts but gets hung later.
> >
> > - partition table ? i figured out how to get into rescue mode.
> > here is the output of gpart -vvd /dev/hda1
> > doesn't that look unsuspicious ? i have no clue.
> >
> > dev(/dev/hda1) mss(512) chs(202/240/63)(LBA) #s(3054240) size(1491mb)
> > Primary partition(1)
> > type: 104(0x68)(UNKNOWN)
> > size: 904228mb #s(1851859059) s(1936028272-3787887330)
> > chs: (116/100/32)-(288/101/46)d (128044/47/32)-(250521/155/46)r
> > hex: 6E 64 20 74 68 65 6E 20 70 72 65 73 73 20 61 6E
> >
> > Primary partition(2)
> > type: 121(0x79)(UNKNOWN)
> > size: 263172mb #s(538976288) s(1330184192-1869160479)
> > chs: (357/32/43)-(0/13/10)d (87975/34/51)-(123621/173/61)r
> > hex: 79 20 6B 65 79 0D 0A 00 00 00 49 4F 20 20 20 20
> >
> > Primary partition(3)
> > type: 083(0x53)(UNKNOWN)
> > size: 682794mb #s(1398362912) s(538989391-1937352302)
> > chs: (345/32/19)-(324/77/19)d (35647/107/11)-(128131/183/54)r
> > hex: 20 20 53 59 53 4D 53 44 4F 53 20 20 20 53 59 53
> >
> > Primary partition(4)
> > type: 073(0x49)(UNKNOWN)
> > size: 10mb #s(21337) s(1394627663-1394648999)
> > chs: (87/1/0)-(335/78/2)d (92237/67/3)-(92238/165/45)r
> > hex: 7E 01 00 57 49 4E 42 4F 4F 54 20 53 59 53 00 00
> >
> > the output of the same for /dev/hda is more suspicious :
> >
> > ** Error: invalid extended ptbl found at sector(3069360).
> >
> > dev(/dev/hda) mss(512) chs(776/240/63)(LBA) #s(11733120) size(5729mb)
> > Primary partition(1)
> > type: 011(0x0B)(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT) (BOOT)
> > size: 1498mb #s(3069297) s(63-3069359)
> > chs: (0/1/1)-(202/239/63)d (0/1/1)-(202/239/63)r
> > hex: 80 01 01 00 0B EF 3F CA 3F 00 00 00 71 D5 2E 00
> >
> > Primary partition(2)
> > type: 133(0x85)(Extended Linux)
> > size: 4230mb #s(8663760) s(3069360-11733119)
> > chs: (203/0/1)-(775/239/63)d (203/0/1)-(775/239/63)r
> > hex: 00 00 01 CB 85 EF FF 07 B0 D5 2E 00 D0 32 84 00
> >
> > Logical partition
> > type: 036(0x24)(NEC MS-DOS 3.x)
> > size: 953967mb #s(1953724755) s(945901090-2899625844)
> > chs: (370/83/52)-(370/113/49)d (62559/143/2)-(191774/47/4)r
> > hex: 68 53 74 72 24 71 71 72 72 78 32 38 53 79 73 74
> >
> > Primary partition(3)
> > type: 000(0x00)(unused)
> > size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0)
> > chs: (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r
> > hex: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> >
> > Primary partition(4)
> > type: 000(0x00)(unused)
> > size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0)
> > chs: (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r
> > hex: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> >
> > do i have hopes set to high, when i think everyhing should be still there ?
> > how can i mount my linux partitioon again ? how can i fix this ?
> > i'd really like to rescue my data.
> >
> > 1000 thanks in advance for all hints !
> >
> > ingo
> >
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> >
> >
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> >
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> > Dept. of Biological Chemistry
> > Technische Universitaet Muenchen
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> >
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> > +49 (8161) 71-5167 (computing)
> > fax : +49 (8161) 71-4352
> > e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
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