windows lost after installing Linux

Oldman talbotscott at cox.net
Fri Apr 28 15:52:19 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 19:54 +0530, Ankush Grover wrote:
> Hey friends,
> 
>   One of my friend has recently installed FC4 on a Desktop PC on which
> Windows 2000 was there. Now he is not able to boot to windows and he
> has very important files on windows.
> 
> How will he get the option of dual boot means how to edit grub so that
> he can get the option of dual boot?
> 
> 
> Thanks & Regards
> 
> Ankush Grover

	It depends upon how Fedora was installed, but in order for anyone to
say how and if it can be repaired, please respond with the output of the
command:

fdisk -l
( note the the  'l' is an ell not a one)
(the above command will only work if previously, the operator issued the
command:

su -

and responded with the root password, when asked.

this will tell us where the windows partition is providing he didn't
tell fedora to write over the windows partition, which would be bad.

Scott




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