On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:18 PM, SRIKANTH NS <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All > > I have a dual boot box, Intel 2.5GHZ,2gig ram, 250G HDD > dual booting XP and DEbian 5.0. > > Today morning, it did not boot WIN when I wanted to do some > Office work (presentation with AtuoCad drgs). > > Evening I returned, booted into Debian without any problem, > browsed net, e mailed. > > Now from Debian side I am able to see WIN Partitions and see the > files also. I can view pictures, play movies etc, but WIN will not > boot. > > I face a blue screen with message " UNMOUNTABLE BOOT VOLUME" > Probebly due to a new Hardware not properly installed, blah, blah... > it goes on, > I have not installed any new hardware. > > But fdisk gives following output > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > debian:/home/srikanth# fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Disk identifier: 0xfe4efe4e > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 1 3825 30724281 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda2 3826 30401 213471720 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/sda5 3826 10454 53247411 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda6 10455 17083 53247411 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda7 17084 23712 53247411 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda8 23713 27536 30716248+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda9 27537 30284 22073278+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda10 30285 30401 939771 82 Linux swap / > Solaris > debian:/home/srikanth# > > This problem is probably because, you have installed grub+debian in a logical partition.. if that is the issue you can resolve it very easily.. here is the link to how to http://www.idlecool.net/blog/how-to-windows-7-vista-dual-boot-with-linux-fedora-12-kde/ > debian:/home/srikanth# fdisk -l /dev/sda1 > > Disk /dev/sda1: 31.4 GB, 31461663744 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3824 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Disk identifier: 0x69205244 > > This doesn't look like a partition table > Probably you selected the wrong device. > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1p1 ? 13578 119522 850995205 72 Unknown > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/sda1p2 ? 45382 79243 271987362 74 Unknown > Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/sda1p3 ? 10499 10499 0 65 Novell Netware > 386 > Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/sda1p4 167628 167631 25817+ 0 Empty > Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. > > Partition table entries are not in disk order > > debian:/home/srikanth# fdisk -l /dev/sda5 > > Disk /dev/sda5: 54.5 GB, 54525348864 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 6628 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Disk identifier: 0x69205244 > > This doesn't look like a partition table > Probably you selected the wrong device. > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda5p1 ? 13578 119522 850995205 72 Unknown > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/sda5p2 ? 45382 79243 271987362 74 Unknown > Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/sda5p3 ? 10499 10499 0 65 Novell Netware > 386 > Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/sda5p4 167628 167631 25817+ 0 Empty > Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. > > Partition table entries are not in disk order > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Looking at the above, can anyone guide me what is to be done and what is > wrong and what happened in WIndows side? Till now I am unable to boot > WIN. > > Please help . > > Thanking you in advance, > > Srikanth NS > ISRO, Trivandrum > > > > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > -- idlecool _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
