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Need help fixing partition table

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tryptameany

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Feb 24, 2005
I tried to delete a partition using W2K disk management and it looks
like it corrupted the partition table. Disk management said that I
needed to change the partition number of my W2K system partition in
boot.ini, which I did. I had Fedora Linux and W2K installed. Neither one
boots anymore and grub can't find the linux system partition. (Fedora
should be unaffected by boot.ini) Does anyone know of a tool that can
restore partition tables?
 
You could boot using a Win98/Me bootdisk, and at the A:> prompt type fdisk /mbr. You could also boot to the Recovery Console, and type fixboot. You won't be able to use GRUB to boot to your Linux install, after running either command though...although you should be able to boot into W2K just fine. There is a way to repair GRUB, so you can get access to the Linux volume...but I'm not quite sure how to do that. You may want to ask about that in the Alternative OS forum...even before attempting to run either of the two commands I made note of.
 
if you get windows to boot it'll be relativly eay to fix grub. just boot off a live cd and rerun the grub setup program like you did when you first installed fedora and that should take care of you for grub.
 
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