On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:21:47 -0500, Long Wind wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> Did you delete the windows partitions or the above information is still >> valid? >> >> Your partitioning scheme looks a bit weird (there are no primary >> partitions but just one extended holding the logical ones and the boot >> flag is under "hda2"). >> >> What is the current status of your setup? Can you boot into Debian, >> Windows or any OS at all? Can you access the data from a LiveCD? Can >> you mount the partitions from Debian? What error message are you >> getting (if any)?
> I have never deleted hd4 > It still works and can boot into etch but can't mount hda2 or hda3 > even though they start and end at their old places It complains: > > FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors > VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda2. What does "dmesg" say when you try to mount any of those partitions? Also, how did you create the windows partitions? Do they currently contain any data on it? > I have tried testdisk > It warns that the current number of heads per cylinder is 16, but the > correct value may be 255 I would try to clone both windows partitions using Clonezilla. IIRC, there is an option in Clonezilla LiveCD for not using the original partition table when restoring the image and this could be useful in your case, so you can fisrt clone the partitions and then dump/restore the raw data in another hard disk (just note that as you are restoring a partition which has no partition table, you will have first to create two fat32 partitions in the target hard disk). Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.11.30.14.23...@gmail.com
