Libre Things » TestDisk http://positon.org Tue, 23 Feb 2016 20:01:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.1 Windows XP broken after Ubuntu Lucid upgrade http://positon.org/windows-xp-broken-after-ubuntu-lucid-upgrade http://positon.org/windows-xp-broken-after-ubuntu-lucid-upgrade#comments Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:12:00 +0000 http://positon.org:81/?p=97 A friend of mine has a PC with Windows XP / Ubuntu in dual boot. After the Lucid upgrade, Windox fails to boot (strange lines on the screen after Grub…).

TestDisk saved us:

sudo aptitude install testdisk
sudo testdisk
  1. Choose [ Create ] Create a new log file
  2. Choose windows physical disk, then [Proceed ]
  3. Choose [ Continue ] Continue even if there are hidden data
  4. Choose [Intel ] Intel/PC partition
  5. [ Advanced ] Filesystem Utils
  6. On Windows XP partition, boot sector is generally bad or non identical to backup sector (Sectors are not identical.).
  7. Choose [ Backup BS ] to copy the backup sector to the master sector.
  8. After that, quit, reboot and test.

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