Re: [SLUG] Something messed up

From: Chuck Hast (wchast@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Jul 18 2005 - 07:04:07 EDT


On 7/18/05, Richard Smoot <rsmoot@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> Chuck Hast wrote:
>
> >Folks,
> >I have had some sort of mess up on my hard disk on my work laptop
> >
> >This machine has (had) dualboot using GRUB, Friday night I shud it down
> >and when I restarted it all that came up was grub gloading stage 2,
> >and then I get a grub prompt. I can not find the boot lines that boot to
> >either Linux or windows xp... I am trying to figure out if I lost the HD or
> >what. If I look at the disk I see the two partitions, one reports ext2fs
> >and the other reports ntfs, (the linux side is supposed to br Riesert
> >fs)
> >
> >This is a area I have not had to get too deep into as of yet, and if the
> >disk is still recoverable I need to try to avoid loosing it as there is
> >stuff on there I do not want to loose.
> >
> >I presently have the SystemRescue CD in it. I can see my partitions
> >with partition image, and indeed it shows that the linux system is
> >rieserts.
> >
> >Right now I need good guidance. I was backing this thing up at work
> >but ran out of file space, they were clearing some out for me to finish
> >this week, but have not got to the part where I can do it yet.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> What Distro are you running? Grub is in windows territory. Your antivirus
> or security update in Windows could have seen it as a problem.
> Many Linux install disks have an option of booting the installed OS as
> an option if you start them.

SuSE 9.1 I have had this thing running dual boot for over a year. Last night
I stuck a Knoppix live cd in and was able to access the HD and look at
both the Linux partition and the XP partition. As soon as I affired that I
could get in there I shut it down because the HD is making not good
sounding noises and I need to keep it alive long enought to be able to
get it on a machine somewhere and pull all of the stuff off.

I have a machine with a 80G hd somewhere around here, I will get that
fired up and get both of them on the network and then move the data to
the 80 G hd.

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