![]() When you add a new partition(s) in that space, it will change the partition sequencing. You can reinstall grub to the MBR with the Repair menu option on your openSUSE install DVD (can also be done from Rescue, but that’s using the command line and grub shell as opposed to Repair which will use YaST).įinally, and this is important: With the first partition downsized, you will have unallocated space between the first and second partitions. In the event something goes awry, this can come in handy getting yourself back working. Let me suggest that before doing any of this, you go into the YaST Boot Loader module and install grub to the “root partition”. Next, as already mentioned, Windows is going to install its own MBR, like it or not. You cannot resize, but you can delete what it sees as the C:\ partition, and then re-create a smaller one. The Windows installer will do it for you. If you are going to do a clean install of Windows, you don’t need to do any advance partitioning. Best also to have Windows reformat the partition, which you have to do anyway if using NTFS. And even if you use other tools like SuSE or GParted to partition, you will still be writing to the table with XP when it installs. Windows is exceptionally rigid, unforgiving, and doesn’t tell you what’s it’s doing. ![]() You are working with different partitioning tools, and in particular, you are touching the partition table with both Linux and Windows software, which handle the table differently. In case things go wrong, and opensuse doesn’t boot, you can try reinstalling GRUB using the Super Grub Disc…that’s another live cd !įirst, regardless of method used, it is strongly advised to backup openSUSE, at the very minimum your /home directory. So, in my opinion, you needn’t reinstall Windows, just resize the partition, that will do. Therefore, you’ll have to reinstall GRUB. I hope you remember that when you reinstall Windows it will rewrite the MBR. Windows XP might seem bewildered by the new change it has undergone and will take a few seconds to get accustomed to it.Īs I said before, it is safer to resize/remove a partition from outside the operating system rather than inside. When you’ve finished, reboot into Windows XP.As per the instructions in the documentation, reduce your windows partition to the required size and apply the changes.When you switch it on, it should boot into GParted.Shove in the GParted Live CD and shutdown your system.First boot into Windows XP and defragment your HDD.Just make sure you follow the instructions given below carefully:įirst visit the following site, and download the documentation for GParted (take a printout if necessary).ĭownload the GParted live cd and burn it as an ISO (it becomes a bootable disc now). Maybe this has something to do with how the other drive is shown.You seem to be a newbie…anyway, helping newbies in distress is our specialty! This time I booted SystemRescueCd so that it's fully loaded to memory. Same error also for sda2 and sda3 when attempted to mount. Mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist Note: The USB drive mentioned above is now mapped as /dev/sdbĪttempts to mount the device give me the following output /root % mount -r /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows Is this a lost cause and the hardrive is simply busted? Or is there something else I can do to discover the drive for mounting it and saving the data?Īnother boot with SystemRescueCd and fdisk -l now shows the drive as Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytesĢ55 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors Lshw gives me some output for SATA controller and such, but can't really say what to look for in here. I also skimmed through dmesg and tried to grep it for "hda", but found no indication of the hardrive. I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Here the DataTraveler 2.0 is my bootable USB stick with the SystemRescueCd on it.įdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 512 MB, 512753664 bytesĥ6 heads, 32 sectors/track, 558 cylinders, total 1001472 sectors I cannot get any sight of the harddrive, below are the commands I've executed and their outputįsarchiver probe simple ![]() Well, I booted the computer with my SystemRescueCd USB installation in order to take a looksy. I suspect that the harddrive is corrupted or broken. My laptop suddendly quit working, simply boots no longer, giving an error stating that it cannot find a disk where to boot from. ![]()
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