I had windows XP. Tried installing SUSE linux. After installation I am unable to load windows. But while using XP boot cd I can see other windows partition existing. I have important data in those drives. Could any body please help me to login to windows? :’(
On 2010-10-08 20:06, vystem wrote:
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> I had windows XP. Tried installing SUSE linux. After installation I am
> unable to load windows. But while using XP boot cd I can see other
> windows partition existing. I have important data in those drives. Could
> any body please help me to login to windows? :’(
Run, in linux, as root in a terminal, this:
file -s /dev/sd*
and post here the result as code. Do the same for “/boot/grub/menu.lst”
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
There are two ways to get at the NTFS files:
- create multibooting so you can boot into either XP or openSUSE and when in XP you can access the files the old-fashioned way
and / or - mount the NTFS partition/s in direcories in openSUSE so you can access the files from within openSUSE
Here is a tutorial for making the openSUSE boot menu into a dual boot menu to access XP: GRUB Boot Multiboot openSUSE Windows (2000, XP, Vista) using the Grub bootloader.. From the sound of things you do not need step1 from there, and maybe step2 is all you need, but you just might need step3 too.
Here is a tutorial for mounting the NTFS partitions: HowTo Mount NTFS Filesystem Partition Read Write Access in openSUSE