Hard Drive Installation problem

[nk1]

Hello all,

I have 2 hard disks and i installed windows on the first and fedora 12 on the other.

My drive partition name was called (I:\) on windows and i installed fedora on a part of it by shrinking data memory amount.

The trouble seems to be that now on Windows I have a new partition K:\ with RAW file system.

Is this supposed to happen?

Also some of the contents of I:\ have been corrupted so I wanted to ask can I format this drive or the fedora installation is inside this only??

Please help........

[devils casper]

Is Fedora booting up fine? Post the output of fdisk -l command.

su -
/sbin/fdisk -l

* Its small L in fdisk -l.

[nk1]

Thanxx for replying...........

Well I certainly don't know what this means but here is what was printed on the terminal screen

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Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80025280000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x05770577

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2550 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 2551 9728 57657285 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 2551 5100 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 5101 7650 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 7651 9728 16691503+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 164.7 GB, 164695473664 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1aa11aa0

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 2550 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 2551 20022 140343840 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 2551 10199 61440561 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb6 10200 18064 63173632 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb7 * 18064 18090 204799+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb8 18090 19781 13584383+ 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/dm-0: 12.9 GB, 12868124672 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1564 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-1: 1040 MB, 1040187392 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 126 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
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What should i do ??

[devils casper]

Nothing is wrong with any partition.
Open /boot/grub/grub.conf file with root privileges and add this code at the end of file :

title Windows OS
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

Save file and reboot machine.

[nk1]

Hey..........

Well I tried to change the boot.conf but I noticed that the code you have given is already present there.....

So what should i do???

[nujinini]

the code you have given is already present there.....

Is it commented "#"? Can you please post the output as well?

[nk1]

Well it isn't commented.............
This is how the grub .conf looks

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# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd1,6)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_nkpc-lv_root
# initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=2
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd1,6)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.32.11-99.fc12.i686.PAE)
root (hd1,6)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32.11-99.fc12.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_nkpc-lv_root nomodeset LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
initrd /initramfs-2.6.32.11-99.fc12.i686.PAE.img
title Fedora (2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE)
root (hd1,6)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_nkpc-lv_root nomodeset LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE.img
title WindowsXp
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
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Does the drive being of RAW format has a relation to this???

And please answer my formatting question too

Thanxxxx!!!!

[rcgreen]

The trouble seems to be that now on Windows I have a new partition K:\ with RAW file system.

This may be because you have some unpartitioned space.

Disk /dev/sdb: 164.7 GB, 164695473664 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1aa11aa0

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 2550 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 2551 20022 140343840 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 2551 10199 61440561 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb6 10200 18064 63173632 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb7 * 18064 18090 204799+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb8 18090 19781 13584383+ 8e Linux LVM

Space from cyl 19782 to 20022 is not partitioned. I was under
the impression that Windows would not see unpartitioned
space, but this is probably what it is. you could create a partition
in this space for either Windows or Linux, and you will no
longer get the annoying message about a RAW file system.

[devils casper]

It looks you are trying to boot Windows OS installed in Other hard disk.
Try this code :

title Windows OS II
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
chainloader +1