Problem after Partitioning

[I922sParkCir]

I have an older Celeron 1.8 with 256mb or RAM and I wanted to install Ubuntu on it.

I used Partition Magic to make ext3 and a swap partition, and in the middle of the partition it frooze. I restarted it and while loading Windows it stops, restarts, and loads back to the BIOS and loops again.

I went into Knoppix to back-up my my ntfs partition, but it couldn't mount it.

I need the data on the drive, is their any way to save it

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[ajehals]

I used Partition Magic to make ext3 and a swap partition, and in the middle of the partition it frooze. I restarted it and while loading Windows it stops, restarts, and loads back to the BIOS and loops again. .

1. What did you do when you created the ext3 and swap partitions? (resize or in free space)
2. How far does it get in the windows boot process?

Thanks

[pavlo_7]

I went into Knoppix to back-up my my ntfs partition, but it couldn't mount it.

How did you try to mount it?
Have you tried to mount it from terminal:

 mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1

?