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I accidently pushed my Media Direct button and I thnk it broke my Windows partition?

post #1 of 7
2/16/07 at 9:20pm
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So I have my E1705 dual booting Windows XP and Ubuntu (Edgy) and I just accidently pushed the media direct button and it tried to startup. Long ago I deleted the partition that held this Media Direct deal so I don't know what it was trying to boot from.

Either way, Ubuntu works but Windows doesn't, when Windows tries to boot it goes into some Media Direct thing.

I have also lost the Windows partition that was mounted in Ubuntu so is there anything I can do to fix this or am I outta luck or how do I recover?
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post #2 of 7
2/18/07 at 1:54am
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post #3 of 7
2/18/07 at 5:50am
sounds like you need to boot from the XP CD...choose recovery console option, and try fixboot /MBR at the command prompt.
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post #4 of 7
2/18/07 at 9:34pm
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Sounds like that would mess up my Linux partitions
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post #5 of 7
2/19/07 at 1:29am
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Originally Posted by SnowPunk98
Sounds like that would mess up my Linux partitions

this would effectively overwrite your mbr.
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post #6 of 7
2/19/07 at 1:32am
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So how do I go about restoring my XP partition but not screwing up the rest of my partitions?
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post #7 of 7
2/19/07 at 12:57pm
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Originally Posted by SnowPunk98
So how do I go about restoring my XP partition but not screwing up the rest of my partitions?
The procedure will vary upon if you're using lilo or grub. But in a nutshell what you need to do is boot off of a "liveCD" open a root shell then "change root" (chroot) to your hard drive then either run lilo from there or reinstall grub. You'll probably have better results posting this in the Linux forum elsewhere on this site, posting on the Ubuntu forums, or even on the Gentoo forums as they are very active with many skilled helpful Linux users. I personally have never run Ubuntu, as I've never been a big Debian fan after trying several versions of it, Storm Linux (another Deb based distro) and Knoppix. I prefer Gentoo, or for simplicity and ease of use (like when I show Linux to newbies) PCLinuxOS which is an awesome livecd. Here is a man page for chroot I hope this helps. Ciao
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