Hi,
Thanks for any help and advice (it is VERY much appreciated)
I had dual boot (Windows Vista and Opensuse 11.1). Service Pack 2 came along and wrecked my machine and required repair installation - and wiped Grub. Also, i had to mark Windows partition of hard drive as “active” as this was the only way to get SP2 installed.
I have lost Grub and my linux partition reports “no volume associated with this partition”
Windows Diskpart sees my partitions like this:
**Partition ### Type Size Offset
Partition 1 Primary 504 GB 1024 KB
Partition 0 Extended 428 GB 504 GB
Partition 2 Logical 2055 MB 504 GB
Partition 3 Logical 20 GB 506 GB
Partition 4 Logical 406 GB 526 GB**
Grub, sees my partitions like this:
**Partition num File System Type
Partition 0 NTFS 0x7
Partition 4 Unknown 0x82
Partition 5 ext2fs 0x83
Partition 6 ext2fs 0x83 **
Running:
find /boot/grub/stage1
resulted in “Error 17: File not found”. I tried booting from the live CD, but was unable to boot from the hard disk. When i booted from the live CD all the way, there were no entries found for:
boot/grub/menu.lst
boot/grub/grub.cfg
So i’m pretty stuck.
- No Grub.
- No volume associated with Linux partition.
- No MBR entries or config files.
Help - how do i recover opensuse? Windows Vista killed my machine.
Any help and/or advice is VERY much appreciated!
I tried:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Re...tallingWindows
and
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351
… but not got it to work yet.
Best regards, samwootton