Tommi Tapani Piirainen wrote: > Hi, > > I have slackware 10.1. I rewrote my ntfs partition with cfdisk and now I > am unable to boot the partition (with windows xp). Can the problem be that > i wrote the table with cfdisk or could it be some thing else. In > additional there is two different ntfs partition is cfdisk both named same > way. I used the first one can't remember the number (or was it 86, don't > remember). > > The reason for doing this was to include slackware to same disk. First I > deleted ntfs partition and made it smaller. Motivation for doing this was > mbr chrash due use of "System Mechanic 6" or at least I think so. I > intalled lilo to mbr and it fixed the mbr problem. Booting problems can > also have some thing to do with System Mechanic 6 altering my dll-files or > some thing else. > > The ntfs partition is first partition in the disk and I use > lilo-bootloader. Can I fix the partition with ntfstools to be bootable? > Your best bet might be to use windows' fixmbr to repair the boot record then using a live linux cd repair lilo. Further, to access ntfs partitions in linux you should mount them as ntfs-3g. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
