Re: my NTFS disk broken by Grub Legacy

[Scott Leerssen]

NT stores a copy of its boot block in the last sector of the boot partition, so you may be able to get your NTFS back by booting a windows recovery CD.

On Jan 24, 2007, at 11:47 AM, Olle Bergkvist wrote:

> Hello Gnu people!
>
> I have a problem; I cant access my NTFS file system with Windows XP on it. I cant boot Windows, and i cant explore the file system even from within Linux. I think GRUB is one  reason.
>
> I am in big trouble, and i would be VERY thankful if anyone could help me, or explain what has happened. 
>
> Recently, i bought a new hard disk. 
>
> 1. The first thing i did with the new hard disk was to install Windows XP on it. Used the Windows-CD to create a NTFS partition to install on. 
>
> 2. Then i created a FAT32-partition, and moved most of my old personal files, and my Knoppix Linux installation to the new Fat32 partition. 
>
> 3. Now , some months later, i decided to install Grub so i can boot other OS'es than Windows, for example Knoppix. I used a Live-CD, dont know whether i used Knoppix 5.0 or Damn small linux 2.?.?
>
> They both have Grub 0.91 or very similar version numbers. 
>
> In Grub i executed 
> "setup (hd0,1)" 
> as i'm used to. But then at boot time my computer booted my previous boot loader, NTLDR for Windows. This happened after repeated re-installatinos of Grub. Grub gave no error messages. I know my BIOS supports LBA by default. 
>
> Then i executed
> "setup (hd0,0)"
> to install on the NTFS partitoion. 
> I thought this would install Grub on a better place, where the computer could reach it at boot time. It worked, but ever since then my NTFS partition is broken and unbootable. 
>
> I can still boot and access my FAT32-partition though. 
>
> Any help is GREATLY appreciated!
>
> Thanks in advance 
> from Olle Bergkvist
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