Uh oh (grub won't boot windows any more)

"N. Thompson" <[email protected]> Tue, 08 Nov 2005 21:27:46 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.linux.arklinux.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I seem to be getting into a lot of trouble lately, this problem is 
particularly interesting.

After getting X to successfully start again I used ark a little while just to 
see if all would work well again, for the most part everything did but one of 
the reboots was my 20th without running e2fsck and it ran automatically 
because I didn't catch it in time to cancel, the thought never even crossed 
my mind.

Now I am unable to boot Windows XP, I don't know what went wrong but I do know 
there were no significant updates from the point I first booted to right now. 
I suspect the problem occurred when e2fsck ran because that  was the only 
thing that did anything to my filesystem.

To be quite frank I don't consider anything dockyard-devel did responsible for 
this, I'm started to get mad at Windows though for being so delicate, this 
happens too frequently, sometimes it seems random, and it only happens when 
Windows has to share a drive with an ext2, ext3 or ReiserFS partition.

If anyone has some suggestions as to how I could recover Windows that  would 
be nice, I do still use it for games and for hardware support, otherwise I 
don't mind letting the thing sit for a few days until I have time to 
reinstall.

The error message Grub gives me seems like a complain that it cannot read the 
drive, I have installed ntfsprogs in Ark but don't know how to start the ntfs 
filesystem check tool if there is one, and the ntfs partition will not mount.

Getting Ark to work in exchange for loosing Windows would seem like a good 
trade, if only I didn't still need Windows :-(