allank
October 15th, 2005, 10:41 AM
Yesterday i installed Ubuntu 5.10 on a system that already had a windows NTFS and a mandrake partition. At the time, the partitions looked like this :
hda contained the windows NTFS partition on hda1
hdb contained the mandrake partitions, although i cannot remember which partition it had (/, /boot and swap i assume)
I asked Ubuntu to install itself on hdb, overwriting the mandrake installation, but i must at some point in the installation (due to errors which i unfortunately cannot remember) done something wrong, since it turned my windows partition into an LVM partition.
Now, the partition apparently still exists, since i added the windows entry to grub's menu.lst and it can boot. however, it appears to be on another partition than before, according to windows, so windows BSOD's during startup.
A "fdisk -l /dev/hda" shows this :
Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80054059008 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9732 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 31 248976 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 32 9732 77923282+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 32 9732 77923251 8e Linux LVM
a "pvdisplay" shows this :
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/hda5
VG Name Ubuntu
PV Size 74,31 GB / not usable 0
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size (KByte) 4096
Total PE 19024
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 19024
PV UUID 70cSTT-kITw-dtKA-xl1E-Ug5L-LdhT-Bp93Lx
and a "lvdisplay" shows this :
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/Ubuntu/windows
VG Name Ubuntu
LV UUID tfEehc-gh8D-YZ76-CnUb-9jrB-YxNU-XEUS7I
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 0
LV Size 74,31 GB
Current LE 19024
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors 0
Block device 253:0
I've tried doing "mount /dev/Ubuntu/windows /media/windows/ -t ntfs" but that returns :
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/Ubuntu/windows,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
and "dmesg | tail" returns :
[4296266.584000] NTFS-fs error (device dm-0): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is invalid.
[4296266.584000] NTFS-fs error (device dm-0): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option errors=recover not used. Aborting without trying to recover.
[4296266.584000] NTFS-fs error (device dm-0): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.
So, to sum it up, can i access my windows partition or is it broke? i just need access to the files.
Alternatively, can i 'turn off' LVM on the partition, and turn it back into a normal NTFS partition?
Also, please reply if you need any more info on the setup.
--
Allan K
hda contained the windows NTFS partition on hda1
hdb contained the mandrake partitions, although i cannot remember which partition it had (/, /boot and swap i assume)
I asked Ubuntu to install itself on hdb, overwriting the mandrake installation, but i must at some point in the installation (due to errors which i unfortunately cannot remember) done something wrong, since it turned my windows partition into an LVM partition.
Now, the partition apparently still exists, since i added the windows entry to grub's menu.lst and it can boot. however, it appears to be on another partition than before, according to windows, so windows BSOD's during startup.
A "fdisk -l /dev/hda" shows this :
Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80054059008 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9732 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 31 248976 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 32 9732 77923282+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 32 9732 77923251 8e Linux LVM
a "pvdisplay" shows this :
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/hda5
VG Name Ubuntu
PV Size 74,31 GB / not usable 0
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size (KByte) 4096
Total PE 19024
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 19024
PV UUID 70cSTT-kITw-dtKA-xl1E-Ug5L-LdhT-Bp93Lx
and a "lvdisplay" shows this :
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/Ubuntu/windows
VG Name Ubuntu
LV UUID tfEehc-gh8D-YZ76-CnUb-9jrB-YxNU-XEUS7I
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 0
LV Size 74,31 GB
Current LE 19024
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors 0
Block device 253:0
I've tried doing "mount /dev/Ubuntu/windows /media/windows/ -t ntfs" but that returns :
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/Ubuntu/windows,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
and "dmesg | tail" returns :
[4296266.584000] NTFS-fs error (device dm-0): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is invalid.
[4296266.584000] NTFS-fs error (device dm-0): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option errors=recover not used. Aborting without trying to recover.
[4296266.584000] NTFS-fs error (device dm-0): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.
So, to sum it up, can i access my windows partition or is it broke? i just need access to the files.
Alternatively, can i 'turn off' LVM on the partition, and turn it back into a normal NTFS partition?
Also, please reply if you need any more info on the setup.
--
Allan K