Hi Tom, it is indeed a laptop, but it still does not tell me why it did this since the original partition with its boot manager is working correctly. Indeed sda1 is the system-reserved partition. Secondly, the boot manager was installed on sda2 but the original sda2 started immediately after the end of sda1 thus the boot manager shifted the files starting there, unless of course w7 reserves space on each partition for a boot manager which as far as I can see from the other NTFS partitions on sda is not the case. Thus my only conclusion is that somehow grub looked at sda, determined that there was a sda2 in need of a boot manager and copied one on there. Since I took the boot manager off sda2 and re-grubbed the grub-conf shows only sda1. I am still puzzled - and I don't like that because computers are just dumb silicon and do what I tell them. Another puzzling thing is that a NTFS partition on an external HDD is visible from Linux and accessible, but not from W7. W7 tells me I have no access priviliges.
Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Meilleures salutations/ Cordiali Saluti / 此致敬意 Sinceramente seu / تفضلوا بقبول فائق الاحترام Dr. H. Bodewig Project Control PO Box 610 0043 Faerieglen - Pretoria, RSA Tel: +27 (0)12 3612477 Mobile: +27 (0)78 7629586 E-mail: [email protected] Links: http://bodewig.tel On 6 June 2012 22:43, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi :) > Win7 is about the first time Windows has automatically installed the type of > "Recovery Partition" that has previously only been found on laptops. It's a > cheap way of avoiding giving people a Recovery Cd/Dvd or a LIVE Boot type of > media that could be used to repair a system. > > I think you are supposed to use that Recovery Partition to generate your own > Cds/Dvds but not many users even know anything about it let alone how to use > it (if it ever works). The brilliant thinking at MS is that if soemone has a > hard-drive failure or something then they can just boot into the Recovery > Partition that is on the failed hard-drive. Grrrrr > Regards from > Tom :) > > _______________________________________________ > Help-grub mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
