I just installed Ubuntu onto my XP machine. Ubuntu works fine, but now
XP wont boot. It comes up with the windows check-disk screen, then says
"chkdsk not found. Skipping check" then it restarts. What is wrong? Did
I format my Windows partition?

chevysrock39@gmail.com a écrit :
> I just installed Ubuntu onto my XP machine. Ubuntu works fine, but now
> XP wont boot. It comes up with the windows check-disk screen, then says
> "chkdsk not found. Skipping check" then it restarts. What is wrong? Did
> I format my Windows partition?
>

If you install Ubuntu on differents partitions, your Windows partition
hasn't be formated. You can check by mounting your windows partition
through your working Ubuntu system, and check if your Windows system is
here.
Can you give a bit more information about how your disk is partitionned,
and the way you boot Windows or Linux (lilo, grub, windows bootloader...) ?

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:37:04 -0800, chevysrock39 wrote:

> I just installed Ubuntu onto my XP machine. Ubuntu works fine, but now
> XP wont boot. It comes up with the windows check-disk screen, then says
> "chkdsk not found. Skipping check" then it restarts. What is wrong?
>
> Did I format my Windows partition?

I don't know, did you?

>
This doesn't look good, but it also seems weird. If you had formatted
your entire disk, I would expect no traces of XP.

In your previous post of Jan. 25, you indicated you have a current
backup, so you have that as a fall back position if this turns out to be
the worst case, or a case which was outside of your intended target.

From Ubuntu, run these commands (for all hard disks in your system):

# fdisk -l /dev/hda
# fdisk -l /dev/hdb

How does the output correlate with the planned table that I suggested you
make here:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp....cb7ea71181b671

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I use partition magic windows linux linux swap recovery are my current
partitions

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 07:54:32 -0800, chevysrock39 wrote:

> I use partition magic windows linux linux swap recovery are my current
> partitions
>
Okay, but that barely qualifies as a sentence. It is not a table in any
shape or form. Perhaps, it's time to call in professional help (before
mom gets home.)

BTW, you need to improve your posting style. Apparently, you are
posting from google groups, and their default setting does not include any
context of the thread. This is bad form.

--
Douglas Mayne

chevysrock39@gmail.com a écrit :
> I use partition magic windows linux linux swap recovery are my current
> partitions
>

OK, you have four partitions :
windows
linux
linux swap
recovery
You will get more information about your partitions by typing Douglas
Mayne's commande :
# fdisk -l /dev/hda

Can you mount your windows partition to know if your windows system has
been altered ? You can do this by the command as root
# mkdir /mnt/windows
# mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows

and then

# ls /mnt/windows

and you will see the content of your windows partition if it hasn't be
altered.

where do I enter these commands? Is it in Command Prompt, or the boot,
or what. By the way, I know that previous post was barely readable
because I was in a rush, and if my Comp-Lab instructor saw me on any
kind of forum, it was an immediate detention.

I gained access, so it is not formatted!!!
I can see and edit all my documents, too.

btw, it still wont boot windows. I can just access my files through
Ubuntu.

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:45:46 -0800, chevysrock39 wrote:

> where do I enter these commands? Is it in Command Prompt, or the boot,
> or what.

What commands? What are you talking about?

> By the way, I know that previous post was barely readable because I was
> in a rush, and if my Comp-Lab instructor saw me on any kind of forum, it
> was an immediate detention.

Oh my! Here's a question: why don't you ask your Comp-Lab instructor to
answer your questions?

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