On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 12:34, Mathieu Frenette wrote: > Hi everybody! > > I have a Toshiba laptop with Windows XP installed on a 30GB hard drive > (with a single NTFS partition). I wanted to install Mandrake 9.1 with > dual boot handled by LILO. I therefore installed Mandrake with the > "resize Windows partition" option. However, it looks like I've lost > everything that was on this partition. Is it because, during a resize, > only data on a FAT partition can be preserved, and not with NTFS? > > When I do an "ls /mnt/windows", it gives the error "ls: reading > directory /mnt/windows: Input/output error". Also, when I boot with a > DOS boot disk, I can not even see any drive letter (such as C:, D:...) > but only the floppy drive A: > > So I guess the other part of my question is, if I want to reinstall > Windows XP, how can I get back my C: drive letter in the first place? > > Thanks in advance for any pointer, > > Best regards, > > Mathieu.
What about trying: mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ...then seeing if the mount is really there...? stephen kuhn ============================== illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * ----------------------------------------------------------------- Only two groups of people fall for flattery -- men and women.
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