landaut
March 12th, 2009, 06:46 PM
I have recently installed Ubuntu as a 2nd OS. I am using a IBM Lenovo R61 Laptop. I have 3 partitions, 1 partition contains Vista, the 2nd is just open space for data, and the 3rd for Ubuntu. When I initially installed Ubuntu I immediately tested to see if Vista would boot up properly and whatnot and it appeared stable. However, I didn't use vista for about 3 or 4 days and last night when I booted in to Vista it ran incredibly slow. Any action would take 50 times longer (no exaggeration). I rebooted to see if that would fix the issue, but then Vista would no longer boot up. It gets to the Vista loading bar and tries to load for an extended period of time then I get a BSoD with a message containing unbootable volume. I booted back in to Ubuntu with no problem and I tested to see if I could mount the partition. I did it successfully, but only after receiving an error message that it could not mount do to a failed boot up and I had to force the mount with 'sudo blah blah -o force'. This let me mount the partition in Ubuntu and I could see all the data with no problem. I tried booting in to Vista while leaving the partition mounted in Ubuntu and having it successfully unmounted(To test). Both of these actions had no effect on Vista booting properly.
I know a reformat would probably cure this, but obviously I would like to do that as a last course of action.
Not sure if this is usefull to know, but here is the listing of fdisk -l:
trevor@trevor-laptop:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xaa9a29f2
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 5341 42893312 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 5341 8096 22131672 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 8097 19457 91257232+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 8097 18989 87497991 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 18990 19457 3759178+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
I know a reformat would probably cure this, but obviously I would like to do that as a last course of action.
Not sure if this is usefull to know, but here is the listing of fdisk -l:
trevor@trevor-laptop:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xaa9a29f2
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 5341 42893312 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 5341 8096 22131672 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 8097 19457 91257232+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 8097 18989 87497991 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 18990 19457 3759178+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.