I have HDD with 160 Gbs and 4 partitions I Iinstalled xp on 10Gbs partition [stupid] now I cannot get to open the rest of my partitions can anybody help me out
ferryden0
recovering lost partitions
Are the rest of your partitions linux type partitions?
XP wouldn't be able to see linux partitions.
Just a guess, but maybe the XP install wiped out however you were booting to the linux partitions, so they are still there but since you can't get into linux, you can't see them??
Try booting into Puppy from a CD or USB install. If you can see the linux partitions, then you can probably just run Grub4dos and get it all working.
XP wouldn't be able to see linux partitions.
Just a guess, but maybe the XP install wiped out however you were booting to the linux partitions, so they are still there but since you can't get into linux, you can't see them??
Try booting into Puppy from a CD or USB install. If you can see the linux partitions, then you can probably just run Grub4dos and get it all working.
Method:
You need a CD (or DVD) or USB stick(that has boot flag set)
Launch a recent version of Barry Kauler's puppy linux (I use Racy)
Launch grub4dos from start menu . The default settings will be fine.
When you boot your machine again, you will have a boot menu.
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If the problem is just that XP doesn't recognize EXT3 or EXT4 partitions
there is a hard disk driver that fixes that problem
http://www.ext2fsd.com/
However I've never used it.
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You need a CD (or DVD) or USB stick(that has boot flag set)
Launch a recent version of Barry Kauler's puppy linux (I use Racy)
Launch grub4dos from start menu . The default settings will be fine.
When you boot your machine again, you will have a boot menu.
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If the problem is just that XP doesn't recognize EXT3 or EXT4 partitions
there is a hard disk driver that fixes that problem
http://www.ext2fsd.com/
However I've never used it.
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I tried ext2fsd in 2009 and it worked just fine! 
XP and reading Linux format partitions
G'day,
As the others have written, use a Live CD or booting USB Pup to see how your hard-drive is now formatted and partitioned.
If you use the let-Windows-use-Linux-partition program, ext2fsd, or similar, then a 10GB install of XP is quite enough as your Windows programs' data could then go onto one of the Linux partitions as say D:/ while XP has C: drive all to itself. You need to pick one during the ext2fsd set-up.
Is one of your Linux partitions for shared data?
I also have a newer laptop with Windows7 that would have needed a different version of linux-reader program for W7 to access a Linux data partition on it - so I just made my data partition as ntfs which Puppy can access without problem.
Good luck with it.
David S.
As the others have written, use a Live CD or booting USB Pup to see how your hard-drive is now formatted and partitioned.
If you use the let-Windows-use-Linux-partition program, ext2fsd, or similar, then a 10GB install of XP is quite enough as your Windows programs' data could then go onto one of the Linux partitions as say D:/ while XP has C: drive all to itself. You need to pick one during the ext2fsd set-up.
Is one of your Linux partitions for shared data?
Just to add to Sylvander's post, I still use this on an old XP desktop.I tried ext2fsd in 2009 and it worked just fine! Very Happy
I also have a newer laptop with Windows7 that would have needed a different version of linux-reader program for W7 to access a Linux data partition on it - so I just made my data partition as ntfs which Puppy can access without problem.
Good luck with it.
David S.
I have:
1. XP on sda1 = 20GiB NTFS partition, 7.63GiB used.
2. Various Wndows files on sda2 = 1.5GiB FAT32 partition, 600MiB used.
i.e.
Address Book, emails, Desktop, Firefox Profiles, Internet Explorer, My Documents.
Doing this makes it easy to switch Windows version, then link the new version to its files [I've now forgotten how I do it].
1. XP on sda1 = 20GiB NTFS partition, 7.63GiB used.
2. Various Wndows files on sda2 = 1.5GiB FAT32 partition, 600MiB used.
i.e.
Address Book, emails, Desktop, Firefox Profiles, Internet Explorer, My Documents.
Doing this makes it easy to switch Windows version, then link the new version to its files [I've now forgotten how I do it].
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Mike Walsh
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I'll second David's suggestion.
Making one of the other partitions also an NTFS partition is probably the easiest way of having a data partiton that both systems can access.
My external Seagate has two partitions. One 250 GB NTFS, created before I jumped the sinking ship of XP, and one 250 GB ext3 partiton, created since. Puppy can access the entire disk with no problems at all.
Regards,
Mike.
Making one of the other partitions also an NTFS partition is probably the easiest way of having a data partiton that both systems can access.
My external Seagate has two partitions. One 250 GB NTFS, created before I jumped the sinking ship of XP, and one 250 GB ext3 partiton, created since. Puppy can access the entire disk with no problems at all.
Regards,
Mike.
unable to open partitions
I have been able to get my partitions back without losing any files [thank god ]I used test disc but I'm not sure what I did XP stopped working and with puppy linux 5.3.1. I found my lost partitions.
I would like to thank all those who replied to my message, there is also a lot of good advice thanks again
I would like to thank all those who replied to my message, there is also a lot of good advice thanks again