So last night I went to install *choke* Windows XP Pro on my computer. It was sopposed to install just on /dev/hdd1 but it seems, for some reason, however, my computer wouldn't boot after the initial part of the install. It would give me pretty coloured blocks randomly spread on the screen and a disk read error.
I tried booting with my Debian disk, cfdisk looked at /dev/hda but wouldn't touch it, partition error said it (something about the parition being to long, I don't recall). I booted with win2k in recovery mode and did a fixmbr, still no go. I booted with partition magic, Disk1 had a Partition Error #108.
I started getting worried. I also tried telling the computer to boot from a different drive, same result every time. I physically opened up the computer and unplugged the data cable, now the computer would boot (well if it had an OS). I then installed XP on /dev/hdd1, set my computer to boot off that drive and now it's happy.
I'm not. I want my linux back (/dev/hda2). So the reason for all that is: Anyone know any utilities/hacks that will let me get that partition table back alive? I really want to keep the data otherwise I would have tried a fdisk a LOOOONG time ago. I do have a system that boots, and the ability to boot off a flash disk, I don't, however, have the ability to burn CDs right now (I do however have a two year old copy of knoppix). If there is a utility that will do the job on CD I'll see about burning the disk at a friends place.
TIA |
