Maybe O/T: Cloned dual boot HDD using Clonezilla now XP won't boot

Gary Stainburn gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk
Thu Mar 20 10:41:46 UTC 2014


I can mount the partition in Fedora and everything looks fine.

fdisk shows the same partition table as on the old drive - apart from the 
increase in size of sda1 and sda6.

However, if I boot from the WinXP CD and try to recover the system it says no 
hard drives detected. As the HDD appears in the BIOS and obviously works to 
let me boot Fedora I'm guessing it just means that it can't see the NTFS 
partition.

This does maybe mean now that GRUB is fine (as Fedora boots) and the problem 
is with the NTFS partition.

Anyone got any suggestions?

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk label type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x926c926c

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1            2048   524290047   262144000    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2       524290048   525723647      716800   83  Linux
/dev/sda3       525723648   534112255     4194304   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4       534112256  1953525167   709706456    5  Extended
/dev/sda5       534114304   743829503   104857600   83  Linux
/dev/sda6       743831552  1953525167   604846808   83  Linux

Command (m for help): 
[root at gary ~]# mount|grep sda
/dev/sda5 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel,data=ordered)
/dev/sda2 on /boot type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel,data=ordered)
/dev/sda1 on /windows type fuseblk 
(rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096)
/dev/sda6 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel,data=ordered)
[root at gary ~]#
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Gary Stainburn
Group I.T. Manager
Ringways Garages
http://www.ringways.co.uk 


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