My Windows gone

Aijaz Akhtar · 20-06-2005, 10:32 AM

I tried installing Yoper. And it installed beautifully and in fact I am beginning to like the distro (except that it has not mounted my Win partitions (come again friend how to do that too !!!!). But the Lilo it used doed notr include Windows. How can I recover that. Earlier once I used Mandrake CD and asked it to recover Windows boot loader, and then I got Win alone. How to get the dual booting Lilo/Grub back?

banned2wise · 20-06-2005, 10:41 AM

To mount windows partition u must edit fstab. You can search this forum on howto-edit fstab and mount win partitions.
Its present in /etc dir and can be edited with vi or any text editor.

ujjwal · 20-06-2005, 09:01 PM

First make sure whether the partitions have indeed been lost or whether merely the bootloader is not configured to include windows.

Refer to the other thread for info about mounting windows partitions, and if that is successful, you can set about dual booting windows and linux. If you want more help on that, mention which version of windows you are using, and the partition layout of your hard disks.

Aijaz Akhtar · 24-06-2005, 01:20 PM

It was only the boot loader perhaps. Windows partitions were accessible, I soon checked with a live Linspire CD before reinstalling Redhat again. But I liked Yoper. It was faster and had a better interface, more like Apple Mac OSX.

20-06-2005, 10:32 AM	#1 (permalink)
Aijaz Akhtar Broken In Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Hyderabad Posts: 185	My Windows gone I tried installing Yoper. And it installed beautifully and in fact I am beginning to like the distro (except that it has not mounted my Win partitions (come again friend how to do that too !!!!). But the Lilo it used doed notr include Windows. How can I recover that. Earlier once I used Mandrake CD and asked it to recover Windows boot loader, and then I got Win alone. How to get the dual booting Lilo/Grub back? __________________ When the World speaks, it speaks in UNICODE

20-06-2005, 10:41 AM	#2 (permalink)
banned2wise Apprentice Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Cyberspace Posts: 97	To mount windows partition u must edit fstab. You can search this forum on howto-edit fstab and mount win partitions. Its present in /etc dir and can be edited with vi or any text editor. __________________ Hibernating ....

20-06-2005, 09:01 PM	#3 (permalink)
ujjwal Alpha Geek Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 780	First make sure whether the partitions have indeed been lost or whether merely the bootloader is not configured to include windows. Refer to the other thread for info about mounting windows partitions, and if that is successful, you can set about dual booting windows and linux. If you want more help on that, mention which version of windows you are using, and the partition layout of your hard disks. __________________ Hardware - Celeron 266 MHz, 128MB RAM, Intel i740 8MB RAM Software - Slackware Linux 10.1; Archlinux 0.7; Windows 98 SE Humanware - GS/CS C++ L+++ w b+++ DI+ D+ e

24-06-2005, 01:20 PM	#4 (permalink)
Aijaz Akhtar Broken In Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Hyderabad Posts: 185	It was only the boot loader perhaps. Windows partitions were accessible, I soon checked with a live Linspire CD before reinstalling Redhat again. But I liked Yoper. It was faster and had a better interface, more like Apple Mac OSX. __________________ When the World speaks, it speaks in UNICODE

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