Help! Windows and Grub problem

[mikszad]

hey guys this place seemes like a good source for help

ok here the thing, something went bad with windows xp pro x64
so i want to do a system restore, only thing is i have no idea how
do do this from Grub, i would do it through windows but i get a blue
screen while the logon screen appears, is there any way i can restore
i would prefer not to reinstall windows as i have no means of backing my files

thanks in advance

[devils casper]

what about Windows Installation CD? you can 'repair' windows through that.





casper

[mikszad]

i cant seem to find a way to restore to a point using the repair console, i
would just copy my files from that partition to my linux partition but
ubuntu keeps saying it cant mount that volume

as long as i can at least get my school work of my windows partition ill be happy

[devils casper]

post the output of this

sudo fdisk -l

casper

[mikszad]

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       25496   204796588+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2           25497       30198    37768815   83  Linux
/dev/sda3           30199       30401     1630597+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5           30199       30401     1630566   82  Linux swap / Solaris

[devils casper]

partition structure seems good.
how did you try to mount NTFS partition?
create mount point and mount NTFS

sudo mkdir /media/NTFS
sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /media/NTFS

check /media/NTFS folder and copy files.







casper

[mikszad]

mount: /dev/sda1 already mounted or /media/NTFS busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda1 is mounted on /tmp/disks-conf-sda1


You do not have the permissions necessary to
view the contents of "disks-conf-sda1".

and i'm trying to browse the partition through Administration > Disks

[devils casper]

mtab? did you add an entry for NTFS in mtab manually?
post its contents.







casper

[mikszad]

 GNU nano 1.3.10               File: mtab




















                                  [ New File ]
^G Get Help  ^O WriteOut  ^R Read File ^Y Prev Page ^K Cut Text  ^C Cur Pos
^X Exit      ^J Justify   ^W Where Is  ^V Next Page ^U UnCut Txt ^T To Spell

mtab seems to be very empty

[devils casper]

post the contents of /etc/fstab file.








casper