<div dir="ltr">Yeah, failing hard drive, probably mucked up the partition tables. You might be able to use testdisk to rebuild the partition table and get at the data.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 6:30 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org" target="_blank">awilliam@whitemice.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Sat, 2014-09-13 at 19:46 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote:<br>
> I was checking out an old computer this morning--a dual boot setup with<br>
> an early Fedora and Win98 on it--I hadn't run it for 6 or so years.<br>
> Initially it booted up nicely to Windows (I aborted the Fedora boot when<br>
> my flat-screen monitor didn't like the resolution it was getting from<br>
> Fedora). But at some point it froze up and I had to power it down.<br>
> Now it won't boot at all. It gets to the point of saying it's found a<br>
> boot at IDE 0 but then hangs. "Searching for boot record from IDE-0. .OK"<br>
> With Knoppix I can access the old Fedora files but even Knoppix doesn't<br>
> see the Windows partition--it only sees /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2, the<br>
> Fedora and swap partitions.<br>
> Any ideas? Did the Windows partition just somehow self-destruct?<br>
<br>
</span>Does the system physically have two drives? If it has only one then<br>
wither SDA1 or SDA2 is the Windows partition. What does the output of<br>
"/sbin/fdisk -l" look like?<br>
<br>
You have a failed/failing drive most likely - no surprise for a drive<br>
that sat idle for six years.<br>
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Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:<a href="mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org">awilliam@whitemice.org</a>> GPG D95ED383<br>
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA<br>
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