changing partition type to fix XP boot crisis
I have a system with XP and linux (ubuntu) installed on the same drive. I installed XP first and left 40Gb for linux On installing linux I must have changed the XP partition to a swap partition by mistake, although this wasn't used as I created a special swap partition in the linux space.
I have a system with XP and linux (ubuntu) installed on the same drive. I installed XP first and left 40Gb for linux
On installing linux I must have changed the XP partition to a swap partition by mistake, although this wasn't used as I created a special swap partition in the linux space.
Now, when I boot XP from the GRUB menu, it starts to load and then says "autochck.exe not found" and restarts the computer.
This is my setup according to the command fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160040803840 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 15298 122881153+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 15300 19457 33399135 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 15301 19424 33126030 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 19425 19457 265041 82 Linux swap / Solaris
You can see the 256Mb swap partition as part of the extended linux partition.
All my files on the XP bit remain intact so a boot from there should work.
Will the fdisk command SETTYPE work and if so, how will I use it?
On installing linux I must have changed the XP partition to a swap partition by mistake, although this wasn't used as I created a special swap partition in the linux space.
Now, when I boot XP from the GRUB menu, it starts to load and then says "autochck.exe not found" and restarts the computer.
This is my setup according to the command fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160040803840 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 15298 122881153+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 15300 19457 33399135 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 15301 19424 33126030 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 19425 19457 265041 82 Linux swap / Solaris
You can see the 256Mb swap partition as part of the extended linux partition.
All my files on the XP bit remain intact so a boot from there should work.
Will the fdisk command SETTYPE work and if so, how will I use it?
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How do you know that the files on the partition are intact?
The reason that I ask, is if you changed the partition to swap, then the partition should have been written (formatted) over as a swap partition.
Also, which fdisk are you speaking of, the Linux fdisk, or DOS fdisk command?
If you really were able to see your partition files with some utility, I would be interested what utility you saw them with.
The reason that I ask, is if you changed the partition to swap, then the partition should have been written (formatted) over as a swap partition.
Also, which fdisk are you speaking of, the Linux fdisk, or DOS fdisk command?
If you really were able to see your partition files with some utility, I would be interested what utility you saw them with.
Well, as I'm using Ubuntu, the file explorer shows the icon for sda1 and in it is all my windows stuff just how I left it.
It hadn't formatted the space as I'd used another swap partition within the extended (ext3) linux one.
As you can see the /dev/sda1 is set to code 82 Linux swap/solaris
(as is /dev/sda6 the swap it actually used)
I fixed the problem today by using fdisk. I'd researched the commands a bit and got red herringed into the SETTYPE idea. Really it was easier
something like sudo fdisk /dev/sda
then it asked me which number... I said 1
Then I brought up a list of commands and a help menu (was it m?)
I found a command to change the id
and I changed 1 from id 82 (swap/solaris) to id 7 NTFS
I saved and exited. Restarted linux then rebooted to XP and it worked!!!
It hadn't formatted the space as I'd used another swap partition within the extended (ext3) linux one.
As you can see the /dev/sda1 is set to code 82 Linux swap/solaris
(as is /dev/sda6 the swap it actually used)
I fixed the problem today by using fdisk. I'd researched the commands a bit and got red herringed into the SETTYPE idea. Really it was easier
something like sudo fdisk /dev/sda
then it asked me which number... I said 1
Then I brought up a list of commands and a help menu (was it m?)
I found a command to change the id
and I changed 1 from id 82 (swap/solaris) to id 7 NTFS
I saved and exited. Restarted linux then rebooted to XP and it worked!!!
