HELP! "Invalid Partition Table" at boot!

6tr6tr · #1 (**permalink**) 22-Jun-2009, 20:51

I have a netbook (with no CD) that was dual booting Windows XP and OpenSUSE 11. I wanted to remove opensuse so I (in opensuse) changed the boot record to point to windows, etc but it screwed up.

I have a bootable Fedora on USB stick that allows me to see my entire disk including OpenSUSE. How can i fix this?

Are there files I can edit in the OpenSUSE disk? Is there anything in Fedora (it's a live dc on usb) I can do to fix this issue?

Thank you for any help you can give!

caf4926 · #2 (**permalink**) 22-Jun-2009, 21:12

Do you mean you changed the boot flag on the partitions?

6tr6tr · #3 (**permalink**) 22-Jun-2009, 23:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by caf4926

Do you mean you changed the boot flag on the partitions?

Yes.

I figured out the issue!

First in console, I did "/sbin/fdisk -lu" and it showed two active boot partitions (the windows XP install at sda1 and a "W95 Ext'd" at sda4. (What is that?)

So then I did "/sbin/fdisk /dev/sda" and then did option "a" and chose partition #4, and then "w" (to write the changes), and restarted and it boots perfectly into windows!

caf4926 · #4 (**permalink**) 22-Jun-2009, 23:30

Happy you sorted it

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