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    UKMuFFiN
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    windows no boot, corrupt ntoskrnl.exe

    Seems to have happened after installing the nice new openSUSE 10.2 - booting into windows gives the error cannot boot invalid or corrupt ntoskrnl.exe in c:\windows\system32.

    I've tried from the recovery console:

    expand d:\i386\ntoskrnl.ex_ c:\windows\system32 overwrite - yes but it didnt work any ideas?

    Cheers.

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    I think this is the error message I got when I installed ubuntu on a windows 2000 PC. HD had 2 partitions before ubuntu was install with the windows system files on D:\

    Added 2 new partitions for ubuntu swap and the 'other one'. ubuntu worked fine - windows would not boot.

    Running the 2000 repair option failed to solve the issue.

    Used fdisk to delete the ubuntu partitions and then repair, ubuntu gone but window started up.

    Not sure about XP but in hindsight the ubuntu partitions had probably moved the windows system files partitions so an edit of boot.ini may have fixed it
    the 2 (equating to the D:\) in the lines with : multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT
    needed change to 3 or 4

    Having typed all that I see your windows system files are on C:\ so this maybe of no use - but of use to someone. (I tell you life was so much simpler when you could 'sys the c:\' to get things working again )
    Last edited by manwithnoname; 11-12-2006 at 11:14 PM. Reason: removed extra word

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    Indeed.
    I spose a fixboot and/or a fixmbr may do the trick but then I'll loose my bootloader. Which is easy enough to put back in so I should stop complaining. I'll try it when I fancy a game of somthing and so need windows

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    Quote Originally Posted by UKMuFFiN View Post
    ... I'll try it when I fancy a game of somthing and so need windows
    ubuntu must have minesweeper

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    can you get the output from "fdisk -l" from a linux root terminal of some kind?

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    Quote Originally Posted by manwithnoname View Post
    ubuntu must have minesweeper
    suse my friend, not ubuntu. and I was thinking more along the lines of somthing that uses a few more pixels

    Quote Originally Posted by directhex
    can you get the output from "fdisk -l" from a linux root terminal of some kind?
    I know the windows partition is still there, I can browse it from linux. Copied over most important files somewhere for now but would still like to revcover it as-was.

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    Quote Originally Posted by UKMuFFiN View Post
    I know the windows partition is still there, I can browse it from linux. Copied over most important files somewhere for now but would still like to revcover it as-was.
    i didn't say it wasn't there

    but diagnosis-by-phone is difficult enough as it is. information & detail is really required. and that includes the "sudo fdisk -l" output.

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    Fair doos will tell you when I get home.

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    K, out put from fdisk -l:

    Code:
       Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
    /dev/sda1               1       24897   199985121    7  HPFS/NTFS
    /dev/sda2   *       24898       31617    53978400   83  Linux
    /dev/sda3           31618       31880     2112547+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
    /dev/sda4           31881       36483    36973597+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
    /dev/sda5           31881       33839    15735636   83  Linux
    /dev/sda6           33840       36483    21237898+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
    And a screenshot of the graphical partitioner thing...

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    hm. what does the contents of /media/windows/boot.ini look like?

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    Windows boot.ini >
    Code:
    [boot loader]
    
    timeout=1
    
    default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
    
    [operating systems]
    
    multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
    It's pointing to the right place isn't it? Partition 1 of disk0.
    Should I just try a Recovery console > fixboot or fixmbr and then reinstall grub if needed?

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    it should be fine.

    try the fixboot/fixmbr idea for now

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