raymondvillain
July 2nd, 2009, 11:47 AM
Had dual boot working with Jaunty, windows XP. Upgraded Jaunty and eventually re-installed Jaunty (32 bit version) from the live CD. Windows XP was on 2 separate physical hard drives, Jaunty was on a separate drive (3 drives, total).
Well, now I can boot to Jaunty just fine, but the one hard drive needed to boot XP will not even mount.
I disconnected all the drives except the XP boot drive. I've used rescuecd, the Jaunty live cd, and supergrub cd.
Everything I try gives a message like "invalid partition table".
If I open a terminal window and type "mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/mydir"
I get a few lines saying the file system cannot be recognized.
I tried ntfs-3g and got the same thing.
Is the "invalid partition table" the official seal of doom? Should I give up and just re-install XP, or is there something that can be done?
If nothing else, I would like to copy everything on the drive to an external USB drive.
Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Well, now I can boot to Jaunty just fine, but the one hard drive needed to boot XP will not even mount.
I disconnected all the drives except the XP boot drive. I've used rescuecd, the Jaunty live cd, and supergrub cd.
Everything I try gives a message like "invalid partition table".
If I open a terminal window and type "mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/mydir"
I get a few lines saying the file system cannot be recognized.
I tried ntfs-3g and got the same thing.
Is the "invalid partition table" the official seal of doom? Should I give up and just re-install XP, or is there something that can be done?
If nothing else, I would like to copy everything on the drive to an external USB drive.
Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated.