hello sorry for the late responce..... I appreciate your help :) I have below printed the fdisk command readout
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 19:47 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On 7/29/07, thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hello fellow linux users > > > > I just tried to install ubuntu 6.06 on my partners laptop to run with > > its vista system.... but now no vista... > How sad, but it might well be that you haven't got a way to boot into > Vista rather than having lost all the files. I agree but some people do love to follow the sheep and not the sure footed mountain goat. so far mandy isn't too upset about vista LOL.. I had backed important stuff 1st so no real losses. > > > when is the next gathering so maybe I could get help to redeem my self. > We meet on the Second Tuesday of every month. It's the 14th. > Your're in luck, 'cos it's a social-cum-fixups evening. > > > as with compaq install files fo vista are on the computer or was on the > > computer... with my current success I may never install again.. AHHHH.. > > Many modern machines, particularly laptops, are equipped with a so > called Windows Recovery Partition so that it's possible to recover > Windows when it suicides ( or meets with an unplanned episode of some > kind ). Using a console in ubuntu issue the command > sudo fdisk -l ( that's a lower-case ell letter, not a one digit ) > That command will tell you the size of the disk and the partitions > thereon. If the size is about 3, or so, gigs smaller than what you'd > expect so see if you were to believe the sales hype about the size of > the hard drive then you can recover windows that way. You might care > to post the output of the fdisk -l command. > Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 4647 37326996 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 9056 9729 5413905 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 * 4648 8872 33937312+ 83 Linux /dev/sda4 8873 9055 1469947+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 8873 9055 1469916 82 Linux swap / Solaris Partition table entries are not in disk order [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I hope this helps thanks tom. > I will bring my System Rescue CD. > http://www.sysresccd.org/ > > Just in case the worst has occured has anybody got a 'Doze Vista > rescue disk set? >
