Partitioning Problem

[rushilhalflife]

I have an external 30 GB HDD in which i have successfully installed opensuse 10.2. i also have windows XP loaded on to it. when i boot my system i can log into opensuse but when i am selecting windows from the GRUB i cannot log in. i dont even get an error message. it just shows

rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1

GRUB....

How do i log in to my windows?? please help!! thanks!!

[devils casper]

Hi rushilhalflife,

Welcome to the LinuxForums.

post the output of fdisk -l command here.

[rushilhalflife]

hello devils_casper
thank u for replying!!

actually when i tried install opensuse 10.2 again the external HDD was formatted and now there is no OS in my external HDD. but whenever i try to install it again using the Install DVD wizard, i get stuck at a place where we have to partition. this is the way my internal and external HDD are shown when i go to the partition tool using experts' tool in the install DVD.

/dev/sda 93.1 GB Fujistu
/dev/sda1 83.1 GB HPFS/NTFS /windows/c
/dev/sda2 8.9 GB Hidden Win95 HP_RECOVERY
/dev/sda3 1.0 GB unknown
/dev/sdb 27.9 GB Generic USBDisk
/dev/sdb1 1.4 GB F Linux Swap swap
/dev/sdb2 10.7 GB F Linux native(Ext3) /
/dev/sdb3 15.6 GB F Linux native(Ext3) /home

this is how it looks in the partition wizard.
in the boot loader wizard i create a chainloader section where i name it as windows XP and give the device as /dev/sda1.

but when i start installing i get the following error:

Failure occured during following action:
Mounting /dev/sda1 to /windows/c

System error code was : -3003

Mount -r -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt /windows/c:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1

missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog -try
dmesg | tail or so.

please help me out with this problem. thanks!!!

[devils casper]

does your machine's BIOS support booting up from External Disk?

[rushilhalflife]

yes it does support an external HDD. its a laptop and i have changed the booting order by giving USB Harddrive the 1st priority and notebook harddrive 2nd. i guess there is some problem in mounting windows while partitioning. please help if u can. thanks!

[rushilhalflife]

i have zeroed in the problem. the problem is that i cant mount windows hdd as it says windows filesystem cannot be recognised. my windows filesystem is NTFS but still it says that its a wrong fstype.

the errorcode i am receving is 3003...

[scrarfussi]

i'm not very good at this stuff but why don't you reinstall your windows delete all partitions and start afresh then reinstall linux it should be easier well hope don't hav any important files but yeah i think it would save you lots o time and stress if you re did it from scratch