Just wanted to plug testdisk[1] in case others end up in the same situation. I have F14 installed on my work laptop. IT doesn't really have a problem with it but asked that I use NTLDR rather than grub (or use NTLDR to bootstrap GRUB). Somehow during the "dd"ing of the bootsector I messed up my partition table and lost everything (or so I thought). Using System Rescue CD I tried a few different things like: - Resetting up the partition manually which failed as I couldn't remember the exact geometry. - Using sfdisk Then I found a page online about testdisk. I wouldn't have thought by the name it was what I was looking for but it turns out it's exactly what I needed. It was able to find and recover my XP partition (sda1) but Fedora was gone. No big deal as I don't keep any important data on it so a fresh install and I'm back in business. I think where I went wrong was when I installed GRUB to the /boot partition. I must have had a setting/option wrong. Now I have NTLDR bootstrap loading GRUB and everything works as expected. Richard [1] http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
