Hi,
I was installing opensuse 11.2 in parallel with windows xp.but during installation suddenly power has gone and after that opensuse is giving me the error message corrupt partition.i am also not able to login in xp. so I decide to reinstall windows, I got the error saying “invalid partition table” after the first restart of windows xp installation.
I tried to use windows system recovery console and committing fixmbr and fixboot commands, but didn’t work.
i have 2 window partition(1 for windows and 1 for data).
i do,nt want to format 2,nd partition.
How can I installed windows?
My plan was first to install windows xp, then opensuse again.
devesh2408 wrote:
> i have 2 window partition(1 for windows and 1 for data).
> i do,nt want to format 2,nd partition.
> How can I installed windows?
> My plan was first to install windows xp, then opensuse again.
i think the easiest and data safest way is probably to wipe/format
that drive and restore all the windows partitions from the backup you
took just prior to beginning the openSUSE install process…
then lay in openSUSE…while you have a fully charged and sufficient
capacity uninterpretable power supply in-line…
i would say that is the best recovery strategy (since because of the
power failure you really have no idea what was corrupted where, and
how much…)
by trying to re-install windows with the fixmbr option you have probably hosed the partitions in the partition table. You may be able to use gparted CD to try and set a work a round, or even use a live cd to give you access to the second partition so you can access the data. Ideally, you want to always follow these steps:
*** Use a UPS whenever possible
BACKUP all important data to an external media hdd or CD/DVD
Make room for Linux which may involve moving, resizing, reordering partitions. Gparted CD or a live CD can do this quite well.
Install windows xp, format both the windows and data partitions for windows during the windows install.
Install Linux in the space you made earlier for it.
Restore you data for windows from your back-ups.
Note:
Use for windows recovery, fixmbr and fixboot are designed to try and guess hdd size, and make the whole hdd one huge partition. The invalid partition table tells me that the recovery console could not determine the partitions and sizes.