I've been using Ununtu Intrepid for about a week but it was too unstable so I decided to install Hardy. Due to my system constantly getting kernel panics, I decided to install Windows XP and let it run for a couple of days. No system hangs so I know my hardware is OK.
Hardware is old. Abit IC7 with 3.4 GHz P4, 2 GB Ram and 3 HD. One on the SATA and 2 older ones with data on the IDE controller.
Intrepid was installed on the SATA drive, which was J: under Windows, dev/sdc1. After installing XP, the SATA drive changed to E: and I couldn't boot into Ubuntu anymore. XP also killed the logical partition on the second IDE drive. NTFSFIX cured that and all was normal.
Under XP, that same drive was hidden so I used TESTDISK to change the filesystem to DATA from unknown. BIG MISTAKE!
Then I booted to Ubuntu and could see the drives but can't mount them anymore. Here is what fdisk -l reveals:
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2b952b94
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 30402 244198583+ ee EFI GPT
Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2628e650
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 1945 15623181 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 1946 19453 140633010 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 1946 19452 140624946 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdc: 33.8 GB, 33820284928 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4111 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x444c544e
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 4110 33013543+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdd: 131 MB, 131072000 bytes
1 heads, 32 sectors/track, 8000 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 32 * 512 = 16384 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc39afbca
I can't boot at all now unless I use the Live CD option so before I muck up my system more, can someone tell me how to get my MBR back?
Thanks for your help.
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