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FC11 160GB HD Partitions are as follows : PQService: (hidden partitiion) C: D: FC11 Last night while updating the system I quit in between(the system seemed stalled).Today I discover am ...
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    HELP:Unable to boot XP and mount a partiton

    FC11
    160GB HD
    Partitions are as follows :
    PQService: (hidden partitiion)
    C:
    D:
    FC11

    Last night while updating the system I quit in between(the system seemed stalled).Today I discover am able to boot to XP but booting to FC11 ends the trail to black screen with a cursor. On IRC they tell me to reinstall grub and I do..

    Code:
    grub-install.../dev/...
    After dev/(the code I mean) i had given a series of entries like sda2 which gave me some error then I wrote sda..but all these yielded errors.Then after a reboot the OS'es list disappeared.

    Later I managed to install the grub,compile kernel and install nvidia drivers but am able to boot to fedora but not to windows .In fedora i'm able to see only D: and PQservice but C: is missing.

    How should I fix this ?
    Is C: alright?
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    Are you running an ext2, or is it an ext3 file system with Fedora? In any case, it sounds like you rebooted while the system was writing to disc. Not a good idea. You probably need to boot a recovery CD/DVD and try to fix the boot loader / partition table as well as your Linux file system. It might make it so you can reboot the system and finish the recovery. This is a good example of why regular system image backups are desirable.
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    Hey Rubberman glad to see you..
    I'm using ext3
    The system image backups you mentioned is it the one we see when you boot the system and we get a list of the OS'es and their versions
    By recovery DVD do you mean the DVD with which I have installed fedora?
    How is the partition table and filesystem to be fixed using the DVD?
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