Lost Windows Vista?

[marvlowe]

I installed 64bit Ubuntu 8.04 on my HP Pavilion dv6000 laptop. I thought I was setting it up with dual boot but it appears I blew it and Windows is now gone. The grub boot director does not show it. Worse yet I had a separate partition with data which seems to have disappeared as well. Is there any way to recover or am I totally dead for Windows?

[PinkFloyd102489]

Open the partition editor (System > Administration > Partition Editor) and check to see if there's still an NTFS partition. If so, Vista is still there, just not listed in GRUB. Easily added.

[marvlowe]

I went to system-administration but there was no partition editor listed in the menu.

Marv

[Melk79]

Install Gparted from the Synaptic Package Manager under System->Adminstration or open a terminal and enter

sudo apt-get install gparted

[Sef]

Easy way to check if you still have Vista:

Applications > Accessories > Terminal

then copy and paste (or type)

sudo fdisk -l small L

Copy and paste the results here.

[marvlowe]

Here's the results from sudo fdisk -l. Am I out of luck with Vista?

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x9e86f523

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 18729 150440661 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 18730 19457 5847660 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 18730 19457 5847628+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 4026 MB, 4026531840 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 489 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0009f64a

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/mmcblk0p1 1 461 3702951 b W95 FAT32
/dev/mmcblk0p2 462 489 224910 5 Extended
/dev/mmcblk0p5 462 489 224878+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

[Sef]

Here's the results from sudo fdisk -l. Am I out of luck with Vista?

You overwrote Vista. I do not see an NTFS partition.

What to do is download TestDisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk) and see if you can recover your Vista and data partitions.