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Mysterious deleted linux partition

  • 15-07-2008 12:17am
    #1
    BopNiblets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭


    This isn't so much a problem now as when I discovered it, but it's so weird.

    All started when I booted up my PC and Grub appeared with an Error 22 message, fiddledy dee!
    Ok, so I booted Linux Mint LiveCD and Googled a bit and confirmed that I should use my Vista disk to fix the MBR, so I did, then booted the LiveCD again to restore GRUB only to get another error message about the file not being found (after this: find /boot/grub/stage1), so I go back out and boot up Acronis Disk Director and discover my linux partition is unallocated space... WHAT? WTF?? :eek: :confused:

    Now Acronis Disk Director has an Un-delete function that seemed to be a huge deus ex machina in this case, so I was able to restore GRUB and Linux Mint worked perfectly again!

    So, what do you guys thing happened?
    Wizards? Gremlins? :confused:


Comments

  • #2
    cance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭cance


    what exactly did you to do get vista to fix your mbr? did you do a repair? fixmbr in recovery console?

    thats odd, i'd imagine that vista recreated the partition table as it wasnt able to see your linux partition...


  • #3
    Garth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 246 ✭✭Garth


    Vista's sp1 overwrote my MBR and also deleted my linux partition. I no longer have Vista now :-)


  • #4
    BopNiblets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭BopNiblets


    cance wrote: »
    what exactly did you to do get vista to fix your mbr? did you do a repair? fixmbr in recovery console?

    thats odd, i'd imagine that vista recreated the partition table as it wasnt able to see your linux partition...
    I used the Vista DVD Command Prompt and did "bootrec.exe /fixmbr"

    I didn't know there was a partition table, so Vista nuked the whole partition? Rage!


  • #5
    Tobias Greeshman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,082 ✭✭✭Tobias Greeshman


    In the early days I've heard some right horror stories about dualbooting vista and linux, but I thought these were mostly gone by now.

    A grub "error 22" is normally that the grub files (binaries, configuration, etc) which would reside in the /boot/grub location are corrupt or not found. Have you done a file-system check on the harddisk? Could be something simple like that so grub couldn't load.

    I find it very hard to believe that "bootrec.exe /fixmbr" would touch the partition table. Looking at Microsoft's docs on the command it doesn't mention anything other than it rewrites the mbr data only, and leaves the partition table untouched.


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