Ntfs compability

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?

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Re: Ntfs compability

On 03-14, 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?
>
> --
> Tommi

Greetings: In other words it looks like you want XP to boot,
but then how would you run Slack; with a floppy??

Anyway could you not re-edit /etc/lilo.conf putting the hda1
notations ahead of the Linux notations; running lilo to rewrite the MBR?

How about booting with an XP rescue floppy or CD and running
the old standby; fdisk /mbr?? Live dangerously, eh?

HTH.


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Re: Ntfs compability

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?
>
>
Hi, Tommi Tapani Piirainen:

I bought a laptop with Windows XP and I repartitioned the hard drive
with fdisk but I did not create any NTFS partitions. I used the
recovery CDROM and restored the o/s to /dev/hda1. Then I installed
Slackware 10.0.0 to the remaining hard drive portion.

/dev/hda1 NTFS Windows XP home
/dev/hda2 swap
/dev/hda3 / Slackware

"I rewrote my ntfs partition with cfdisk and now I am

unable to boot the partition (with windows xp)."

Yes, I would expect so. I expect that you will need to reinstall Windows.

I have no knowledge of "System Mechanic 6". :-|

HTH, Chuck



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Re: Ntfs compability

> /dev/hda1 * 1 9605 77152131 86 NTFS volume set

;your problem may be the NTFS volume should be type 7 (HPFS/NTFS)
instead of 86 or 87, which i believe is for dynamic disks (partitions
spanning multiple disks).

;another issue may be that your /dev/hda1 is toggled as bootable, i
don't know for certain. i thought that the bootable flag was just for
linux, so is it possible that you toggled it on when you installed
slackware, and linux has this as your /boot in /etc/fstab? or did you
turn that flag on in cfdisk yourself?

;cRaig

On 3/14/06, 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?
>
> --
> Tommi
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Re: Ntfs compability

Hi,

Ok, thanks I will try type 7 after I back up my recent data.

I toggled hda1 bootable, so I will change this for my linux partition.

Thank you cRaig from your answer:) If none of these changes will solve my
problem I will reinstall.

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Tommi

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:10:33 -0500 cRaig wrote:

> > /dev/hda1 * 1 9605 77152131 86 NTFS volume
> set
>
> ;your problem may be the NTFS volume should be type 7 (HPFS/NTFS)
> instead of 86 or 87, which i believe is for dynamic disks (partitions
> spanning multiple disks).
>
> ;another issue may be that your /dev/hda1 is toggled as bootable, i
> don't know for certain. i thought that the bootable flag was just for
> linux, so is it possible that you toggled it on when you installed
> slackware, and linux has this as your /boot in /etc/fstab? or did you
> turn that flag on in cfdisk yourself?
>
> ;cRaig
>
> On 3/14/06, 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?
> >
> > --
> > Tommi
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Re: Ntfs compability

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.

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