HELP CANT BOOT INTO XP! [solved] :)

[Pavilion]

I was resizing my XP Partion in ubuntu with Gparted and it froze so i had to turn off my PC and turn it on again but this time i tried to boot into XP but to no avail it wouldn't start   


PS: I Use Grub to Boot



PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Totti]

Basically, you are screwed, try and mount the partition in what ever you are using now and extract what data you can, then reformat.

 

[Pavilion]

I Cant Mount it in any way so i cant save any data.
There needs to be a way?

 

[Totti]

What does it say when you try to mount it?

 

[Pavilion]

Failed to mount '/dev/sda2': Input/Output error NTFS is  either inconsistent, or you have hardware faults, or you have a SoftRaid/FakeRaid hardware. in the first case run chkdsk /f on  then reboot into windows TWICE. The Usage of the /f Parameter is very important! if you have SoftRaid/FakeRaid then first you must activate it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (eg. /dev/mapper/nvidia_ eahaabcc1) please see the 'Dmraid' documentation for more details

 

[Totti]

Okay, have you run checkdisk (chkdsk /f)?

 

[Pavilion]

i cant do it i cant boot into xp in any way

 

[Totti]

You can run checkdisk without booting into the OS.

 

[Pavilion]

How?

 

[Totti]

Try this tutorial.  http://en.kioskea.net/faq/sujet-223-boo ... -safe-mode

 

[Pavilion]

I Cant do that as i use grub to triple boot and when i select XP it dosnt give me enough time to press F8 and just restarts the computer

 

[Totti]

Okay, so when it restarts after you select XP what does it say?

 

[Pavilion]

Ok just give me a sec to reboot and check

 

[e]

Well, chances are, if you were resizing, you're pretty much screwed. Good luck though! :thumb:

 

[___]

You can use the recovery console in the windows xp/2000 boot disc to use a few common repair utilities. You might also try the disk/data recovery utilities on the Ultimate Boot CD. Just be careful not to trash your boot sector while repairing, it's a pain in the ass to get GRUB playing nice  again.

 

[Pavilion]

Thankyou all for your help it turns out i couldnt do anything so i left XP behind to catch up with my old Friend Vista Ultimate

 

[Totti]

So you reformatted and lost all of your data?

 

[arbiter]

;D

 

[Pavilion]

Yup!

 

[ChronoStopPosting]

Now that you have Vista (Which sucks ATM) Try not to resize a partition on your harddrive... seriously... the only time you should even mess with partitions is if your DELETEING them to install a new OS.