On 01/10/2011 09:37 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > Just wanted to plug testdisk[1] in case others end up in the same situation. > > I have F14 installed on my work laptop. IT doesn't really have a > problem with it but asked that I use NTLDR rather than grub (or use > NTLDR to bootstrap GRUB). > > Somehow during the "dd"ing of the bootsector I messed up my partition > table and lost everything (or so I thought). > > Using System Rescue CD I tried a few different things like: > > - Resetting up the partition manually which failed as I couldn't > remember the exact geometry. > - Using sfdisk > > Then I found a page online about testdisk. I wouldn't have thought by > the name it was what I was looking for but it turns out it's exactly > what I needed. > > It was able to find and recover my XP partition (sda1) but Fedora was > gone. No big deal as I don't keep any important data on it so a fresh > install and I'm back in business. > > I think where I went wrong was when I installed GRUB to the /boot > partition. I must have had a setting/option wrong. > > Now I have NTLDR bootstrap loading GRUB and everything works as expected. > > Richard > > [1] http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk What live CD do you recommend for someone that has only worked on Fedora/Centos? -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
