i know just enough to REALLY mess things up!

[mstevens]

two years ago i loaded suse on one hard drive and then xp on another. xp labeled its hard drive "F."

recently a program i was loading on xp reqired it be loaded on the "C" drive so i jumped into the registry and changed xp's "F" hd to "C".... ooooops!!!!

for those who can see the painting on the wall.... after rebooting it wouldn't load xp (i'm guessing because the suse boot record is looking for the f drive). for some stroke of luck though, i could see the xp files when logged into suse. great, just make DVD back ups right!?!! just then the suse hard drive crashed! ahhhhhhh!!!!!

now with a new hd and opensuse 10.2 i can't see the xp drive anymore and i'm lost. should i mess with the mbr on either os?

any help would be greatly appreciated!

[valemon]

Welcome to LF!

Post the output of "fdisk -l" and "cat /etc/fstab"

[mstevens]

not sure how to go about finding the info to post fdisk -1. is that something i can access in suse?

as for the other info...

cat /etc/fstab:

/dev/hda5 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda6 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0

[MikeTbob]

It's a lowercase L, not a one (1).
fdisk -l
or
/sbin/fdisk -l

[mstevens]

newbie on the loose! ok i give up. i think i'm missing something very basic here. i can find that file in the bin using that directory but i don't know how to access the info i need to post.

thanks for your patience!

[valemon]

You need to be superuser to execute this command. Enter "su" in the terminal. You will be asked for the root password, enter it. You cannot see what you enter. Then enter the command.