Hello friends,
Iam new to Linux OS.I had vista in my pc. I installed openSUSE. Then I lost my total data in my Hard drive. Now Its like a new pc with Opensuse. Luckly i backuped the data. Now i wanna install Vista in my pc.
Any help plz.
Thanks
Sankar:\
Are you sure that Vista was removed. Normally Suse will see windows partitions and add them to the boot menu
/Geoff
Just to check that it is gone can you do this:
Open a terminal. Type in:
su
(then the root password when prompted)
fdisk -l -u
Copy and paste the results here.
Hello friends,
Thanks for your help. This is the report What i got.
Sankar@cm22:~/Desktop> su
Password:
cm22:/home/Sankar/Desktop # fdisk -l -u
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf8000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 96389 48163+ 6 FAT16
/dev/sda2 96390 976768064 488335837+ f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/sda5 96453 4305419 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 4305483 46251134 20972826 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 46251198 976768064 465258433+ 83 Linux
cm22:/home/Sankar/Desktop #
can i know what i can do next
Thanks
Sankar
sankar vfx wrote:
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 * 63 96389 48163+ 6 FAT16
> /dev/sda2 96390 976768064 488335837+ f W95 Ext’d
>
see that above!! don’t do anything without thinking and
checking…because your Windows[tm] IS still there…but, you can
accidentally erase it if you don’t carefully follow directions…
IF you reinstall VISTA[tm] it WILL hide your SUSE from you!
first thing you should do is reboot and WATCH the screen…MAYBE the
first SUSE screen (green maybe) will offer a option to boot to
- SUSE or
- Windows[tm] or (it may not SAY Windows[tm], i don’t know)
- fail safe
if that screen comes up, then use the TAB button to switch to
Windows[tm], and then press enter…
see, if you don’t SWITCH it there, on that page, your machine WILL
boot to SUSE automatically…
THAT would be the normal/default way that a new SUSE install on top
of a Windows[tm] machine would go…
let us know if that screen pops up…and, if you switch to
Windows[tm] then it comes up…
IF that works, then to get back to shiny new SUSE you will again
have to reboot, watch for the boot options screen and pick SUSE…
simple, if it works…and, you pick…let us know how it works for
you…and, if you have trouble someone can help you get it sorted out…
–
DenverD (Linux Counter 282315) via NNTP, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14, KDE
3.5.7, SUSE Linux 10.3, 2.6.22.18-0.2-default #1 SMP i686 athlon
Did you make the FAT16 partition, sda1, or is it a system partition installed by the manufacturer?
If you don’t know, you could see if it’s mounted with the command in a console of df -Th. If it’s mounted you can prowse to it and tell us what files are on it, something about it?
@DenverD – IMHO vista is gone because there are no NTFS partitions listed in fdisk.
Hello friends,
I am using Dell XPS 420 PC.
Before I install I had 3 main drives[partitions].
- C drive – Where Vista is installed
- D drive – It’s recovery drive for vista from Manufacturer]
- E drive – Where i stored my data files.
But what i noticed is my total capacity of my drive is 700GB
Now the free space is 414.0 GB.
by this i can guess my vista is hidden
when i reboot I see
openSUSE 11.0
openSUSE 11.0 fail safe
I hope I explained what the problem I have
Thanks
Sankar:\
> @DenverD – IMHO vista is gone because there are no NTFS partitions
> listed in fdisk.
AAAaaah, see i don’t know enough about Winders to actually comment
(having not used it, except at school, since '95), and so
shouldn’t…i just ASSuMEd that that win95 partition was so named
BEFORE he laid VISTA on top of it…
are you saying that VISTA insists on using NTFS, only?
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see caveat: http://tinyurl.com/6aagco
DenverD (Linux Counter 282315) via NNTP, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14, KDE
3.5.7, SUSE Linux 10.3, 2.6.22.18-0.2-default #1 SMP i686 athlon
Hello Denver,
Yes Vista formated my disk in NTFS only
Thanks
Sankar
How did you determine that the disk is 700GB? fdisk is showing it as a 500GB drive. Even if the Vista partition was somehow marked “hidden”, IIRC fdisk would still see it.
I’m afraid that I must agree that the Vista partition is gone. The recovery partition is usually the first. Vista would have been on the second partition. But that is now an extended partition with the linux logicals created inside it. The sector boundaries all align.
That FAT16 recovery partition must hold a compressed image file(s). What happens when you run the manufacturer’s recovery system? And is that done from the bios or from a CD/DVD?. This is important. Depending on the method used, if you change or rebuild the partitions and recover Vista from a generic backup, you may loose the recovery capability. And often the recovery partition is all the manufacturer provides; there is no optical media for recovery or re-installation.
My suggestion is to try to recover Vista first. As it is, the way the disk is partitioned now you have no space in which to fit Vista. You would have to shrink the linux logicals, then shrink the extended, then move the extended to provide space between it and the first partition. While Vista itself can be installed on a logical, it still has the Windows requirement of its system volume (the boot files) being on an active primary. So at the minimum you would have to move everything enough to add in a primary. None of this is practical.
Let me add that if you were to use a retail Vista DVD, it will also need you to remove the linux partitions. You could leave the recovery partition, but the DVD will not use it and, again, it is possible that by installing this way you will lose the use of the recovery partition. All things considered, best to use the manfucturer’s method or contact the manfacturer for assistance.
If the Vista partition were still there, there would be other alternatives with the Vista Recovery Environment (which is on the DVD or can be separately downloaded). If you have access to an RE, it might be useful to run it to have it confirm that Vista is unrepairable and must be totally restored or re-installed. (You can get an iso of the RE here Windows Vista Recovery Disc - a very valuable tool.)
Oh and btw, Vista can only be installed on NTFS.
Good luck.
I reiterate that you must discover what’s on the DOS partition before even contemplating further partitioning.
I think that if you don’t mind reinstalling Suse, then the best long term solution is to restore vista, shrink its partition from within vista (to provide space for Suse) and then install Suse on the spare space that you created from within vista. Which is what Mingus said more or less.