please write in fuctional english On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:04 PM, megha jindal <[email protected]>wrote:
> > i have 80 gb hdd.i have 20 gb for c: drive and 20gb for d: drive.i > have allocated 20 gb for linux partition.and the remaining 20 gb was > unallocated. i had installed ubuntoo (linux) on that linux partition. > I have also installed grub loader.Disk management on windows XP > display parittion data as follows: > 1. 20gb c: drive healthy(primary) partition. > 2. 20 gb d: drive healthy parttion. > 3.and three partiton corresponding to linux partition : helathy and > unknown partitions. i dont remember whether that was primary or not. > The total size of those three partitions were being shown as 20 GB. > 4. 20 gb unallocated space. > > I was sure that this unallocated space was not being used by "linux" , > so I decided to allocate it through "windows disk management". so, > when i tried to allocate that unallocated partiton using windows disk > management and assigned drive letter E: for that partition.but after > allocating that partition,disk manangement showed disk partition as > follws: > > 1. 20gb c: drive healthy(primary) partition. > 2. 20 gb d: drive healthy parttion. > 3.20 gb free space corresponding to the linux partition.previously it > was being shown as "healthy" and "unknown". > 4. 20gb healthy (primary) > > i got afrraid when i saw that partition correspondsing to linux is > being shown as "free space" in "disk management". So,then i restarted > my computer and i got Error: > > Grub loading error 22.and then it hangs. > > To solve this ,i used windowsxp recovery console and used fixmbr to > fix this problen.now,MY WINDOWS system is working well but i am not > able to run my linux operating systems. It seems that because I used > "fixmbr" so, I can not run the linux. Is there any way I can recover > my linux operating system. Also, if it is not possible to run the > linux on that partition as it is please let me know if I can recover > data from that linux partition. I have lots of useful data in my linux > partition. I have tried various softwares like ext3fsd, explore2fs etc > to try if thy are are able to read this partition but none of the > software is showing this partition as "linux partition". I also tried > "partition magic 8.0", but it always exited after showing an error. > > Init failed error 117 > partitions drive letter can not be identified. > > > plzzz help me out...in getting the data on that partition back. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ l...@iitd mailing list -- group http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
