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    Windows partition unmounted, stuck in grub rescue!

    I Accidentally unmounted Windows partition thinking I had only unmounted the Linux partitions inside of the Windows partition while trying to install a Linux distro( I managed to boot into my Windows OS from the linux). To make matters worse after doing some re-partitioning to even out the partition size's in my Windows OS I lost the boot.img and ended up in grub rescue on a reboot. I already knew I would loose the boot.img and was prepared with a boot repair CD which also has a live linux distro (which is how I'm able to start this thread).
    I tried running the boot repair CD and It tells me there is no OS detected so it cannot repair the boot img, which is how I figured out my Windows partition is unmounted.

    Is there a way to mount the Windows partition from the Live Linux distro and therefore, be able to fix the boot image?

    2003 SONY VAIO PVC V200G Desktop with 120 GB hard drive with 1GB of RAM with a intel pentium 4 running at 2.80 GHz.
    Inside the Windows partition I have a Windows OS partition at 30GB, a 27GB unallocated partition (this was fixing to have a Bohdi linux distro installed onto it), a 27GB linux Mint distro partition, a 30GB Kubuntu partition, and a 990MB swapp partition (was trying to figure out which distro I liked the best and had them all installed for comparission).

    Code:
    root@debian:/home/user# cat /proc/partitions
    major minor  #blocks  name
    
       8        0  117220824 sda
       8        1   31744405 sda1
       8       16   15667200 sdb
       7        0     327416 loop0
    
    root@debian:/home/user# ntfs-3g /dev/sda /mnt/windows
    NTFS signature is missing.
    Failed to mount '/dev/sda': Invalid argument
    The device '/dev/sda' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
    Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
    partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
    
    
    root@debian:/home/user# ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows
    Failed to read last sector (63502328): Invalid argument
    HINTS: Either the volume is a RAID/LDM but it wasn't setup yet,
       or it was not setup correctly (e.g. by not using mdadm --build ...),
       or a wrong device is tried to be mounted,
       or the partition table is corrupt (partition is smaller than NTFS),
       or the NTFS boot sector is corrupt (NTFS size is not valid).
    Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Invalid argument
    The device '/dev/sda1' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
    Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
    partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
    root@debian:/home/user#
    Last edited by AndyOpie150; October 8th, 2012 at 03:58 PM.

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