vikasb
September 26th, 2010, 10:53 AM
Hello Experts!
I do not know if I can salvage things here.
I was happy to boot to my newly shipped Dell Inspirion desktop with Win 7 and the first thing I did was download ubuntu from the wretched IE. I later installed Ubuntu from the burned CD. The version is 10.04. On restart, I got a boot menu with Ubuntu on top and Win 7 on bottom as expected. I used Ubuntu for the last 2 days without need to use Win 7. But then my friend wanted a file which I had saved in Win 7 and I therefore booted to Win 7 for retrieving that file for my friend. Then Windows (First time windows boot after Ubuntu installation) tells me there was some issue and it needs to recover. I clicked yes, It did something for few minutes (I do not remem the messsage, sorry :(.. I expected Window to discover Ubuntu got installed and therefore save it for the user.) Thereafter, Windows booted correctly, I logged into my account sent that file to myfriend via email and then wanted to come back to Ubuntu. I restarted to login to Ubutu. On restart, I am expecting the boot options of Ubuntu first and Win 7 later, BUT to my shock, I get only a black screen, saying it doesn't have any boot information.
I booted to the live CD. Here is sudo fdisk -l
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x98000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 12 96358+ de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 13 1302 10360832 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 1302 40964 318582208 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 40964 77826 296090625 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 40964 76360 284318720 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 76360 77826 11770880 82 Linux swap / Solaris
I want to recover both Win 7 (As I did not create a recovery disk) and Ubuntu because there is 2 days of work on my Ubuntu.
Please help. Its greatly appreciaited.
Thank you
Vikas
I do not know if I can salvage things here.
I was happy to boot to my newly shipped Dell Inspirion desktop with Win 7 and the first thing I did was download ubuntu from the wretched IE. I later installed Ubuntu from the burned CD. The version is 10.04. On restart, I got a boot menu with Ubuntu on top and Win 7 on bottom as expected. I used Ubuntu for the last 2 days without need to use Win 7. But then my friend wanted a file which I had saved in Win 7 and I therefore booted to Win 7 for retrieving that file for my friend. Then Windows (First time windows boot after Ubuntu installation) tells me there was some issue and it needs to recover. I clicked yes, It did something for few minutes (I do not remem the messsage, sorry :(.. I expected Window to discover Ubuntu got installed and therefore save it for the user.) Thereafter, Windows booted correctly, I logged into my account sent that file to myfriend via email and then wanted to come back to Ubuntu. I restarted to login to Ubutu. On restart, I am expecting the boot options of Ubuntu first and Win 7 later, BUT to my shock, I get only a black screen, saying it doesn't have any boot information.
I booted to the live CD. Here is sudo fdisk -l
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x98000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 12 96358+ de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 13 1302 10360832 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 1302 40964 318582208 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 40964 77826 296090625 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 40964 76360 284318720 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 76360 77826 11770880 82 Linux swap / Solaris
I want to recover both Win 7 (As I did not create a recovery disk) and Ubuntu because there is 2 days of work on my Ubuntu.
Please help. Its greatly appreciaited.
Thank you
Vikas