On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 06:49, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Thursday 04 September 2003 10:34 pm, 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. > > Please post a copy of your /etc/fstab file. For the record, I am pretty sure > that Mandrake does not mount an ntfs partition using /mnt/windows, more like > /mnt/win_c or something like that. that is correct, and try typing as root, in a text console "mount /mnt"[then use the tab key to offer the choices to auto-complete] and you should get to see all the choices under /mnt
> Could be the fstab settings are not > correct under the entry for windows. -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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