Don't just think. If the message was grub loading failed, or grub loading stage 2 ... failed or something like that, you definitely have formatted your linux partition. (Grub stage 2 resides in the linux partition and not on the MBR).
And one more suggestion, please don't rely on the windows partition manager to do things right. You can use a gparted live CD to do that graphically. You can also find out what you have done with gparted live CD. On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 13:31 +0530, Harsimran Walia wrote: > If u think you have not fomatted the linux partition and just > overwritten grub > so i will suggest you just use ubuntu live cd and install grub again > with the following command: > grub-install /dev/hda or grub-install /dev/sda > You can check whether your harddisk is hda or sda with fdisk -l > it will show you at the top after executing the command > > and if you want to see the data of linux partition in windows you can > use ext2fs software. > > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Jatin Suneja > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi....!!!! > > It seems that you have deleted the linux grub boot loader > by > fixing fixmbr.The error : > > Grub error 117 is b'coz of this. > > One of the possible way is to use(run) your ubuntu live cd > to access > your linux partition and recover your data to an external > drive.I > hope this method will easily recover your precious data on > linux > partition. > > Regards > Jatin suneja > > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Mayank > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:04 PM, megha jindal > <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> 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) > >> > >> > >> plzzz help me out...in getting the data on that partition > back. > >> > >> > > > > Hi, > > I am assuming that you've formatted your Linux > partition. If this is > > the case then you can try out some data recovery software. > Visit > > http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-recovery. This software > might be of some > > help. > > > > Regards, > > Mayank > > > > -- > > Today is tommorrow I was so worried about yesterday ... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Join the next generation of computing, Open Source, and Linux/GNU! > > Harsimran singh walia > 3rd year, Mechanical Engineering > IIT Delhi > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ l...@iitd mailing list -- group http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
