Can't run windows xp after fedora7 installation

[faith8]

I've just installed fedora 7 on a partition of my laptop where there is Windows xp.
I needed to run ntfsresize from live cd.

Fedora has been correctly installed but when I try to access Windows at boot the screen asks me to choose how to start windows (safe mode, normal mode, ..). For anything I choose I see a message error that slides away very quickly so I can't read what's wrong!!

I really doesn't care about accessing windows on that machine, at least I can re-install windows but I need to access data on that partition.

If I try to mount the windows partition from fedora with:


mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows/

I get:

[root@catpower faith]# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows/
$LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (0, 1)
Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Operation not supported
Mount is denied because NTFS is marked to be in use. Choose one action:

Choice 1: If you have Windows then disconnect the external devices by
clicking on the 'Safely Remove Hardware' icon in the Windows
taskbar then shutdown Windows cleanly.

Choice 2: If you don't have Windows then you can use the 'force' option for
your own responsibility. For example type on the command line:

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows/ -o force

Or add the option to the relevant row in the /etc/fstab file:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/windows/ ntfs-3g defaults,force 0 0
[root@catpower faith]#

How can I access data in the windows partition?

thanks

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Post the output of fdisk -l command.

[john_thomas]

hi,
check for entering your xp system by pressing F10 on your keyboard.
when you checked it please inform me to follow up.
good luck

[faith8]

Hi, thanks for helping.

[root@catpower ~]# /sbin/fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 5143 41311116 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 7270 7295 208845 88 Linux plaintext
/dev/sda3 5144 5156 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 5157 7269 16972672+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 5157 7269 16972641 8e Linux LVM

Partition table entries are not in disk order
[root@catpower ~]#

Hi and Welcome !

Post the output of fdisk -l command.

[devils casper]

Try force option in mount command.

mkdir /media/win
mount  -t  ntfs-3g  /dev/sda1  /media/win   -o   defaults,force,umask=0 
ls /media/win

[faith8]

That's fine. Now I can see everything in the win partition.

Thanks

Try force option in mount command.

mkdir /media/win
mount  -t  ntfs-3g  /dev/sda1  /media/win   -o   defaults,force,umask=0 
ls /media/win