Hi, I did login to rescue mode and did fdisk /dev/hda I get the following mesg. The number of cylinders for the device is set to 1222 There is nothing wrong with that but this is larger than 1024 and could in certain setup cause problems with 1) softwares that runs at boot time (e.g. old version of lilo) 2) bootup and partition software from other sources (eg DOS...) warning : ignore extra data in partion table 5 Disk /dev/hda: 255 head , 63 sector , 1222 cylinder when I print the existing partions I get device Boot Start End Blocks Id system /dev/hda1 * 1 652 5237158 c windows 95 /dev/hda2 653 1222 4570529 5 extended /dev/hda5 ? 873 873 39 ff BBT I guess my sys is totally screwed up. I'm going to lose all my updates , settings, latest netscape and opera . and whatever I installed and whatever I stored , everything is going to be totally lost................................ All this is for simple "defrag" in windows???????????????????? there should be someway to recover .....how?????? anbu

On Sun, 3 Feb 2002 00:36:18 +0000 (UTC) anbalagan wrote:

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Hi, Thanks for imme. reply. I tried to boot from CD and tried "boot installed system" I get "No Linux root partition found mesg"

I did a complete (spent some hrs) search in google for tha same error mesg. I get only messages posted, no answers ....

Anything that could bring up my old setup could be of great help as I've spent m onths of work in customizing to Tamil language desktop, and settings . Its going to be real pain if I'm going to do that again.

I had already reinstalled 5 times due to MBR corrupt , whenever I install new sw in windows. lately I decided to boot from floppy , and was working fine for the past 3 month s. Now again , for some reason I did a defrag in windows and again I'm lost!!! If someone could give me any suggestions to bring up my system could be of great help.

Boot from the floppy, and choose "Start rescue system", then you should be able to logon without a password. Do an fdisk, to see if your linux partitions are still there. If they are, try mounting them , like mount -t ext2 /dev/hda5 /mnt then cd /mnt and see if your files are still there. If they are, try to see if your /boot files are there. and maybe copy your special setup files to your windows partition as a backup. Or you can make a backup partition maybe.

Let me know how it goes.

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