hi all i seek ur guidance!plz help! i hav 2 harddisk.i installed windows on 80gb sata & redhat linux 9 on 20gbpata . *note that redhat linux 9 doesnt recognize/detect sata. so in oreder to dual boot i had to change bios settings everytime. i needed to select sata when i wanted to run windows and pata as my boot drive when i wanted to run linux. afterthat ,i used bootmagic to configure my system to dual boot both , but i was unsucessful .* i think* this is what caused the following problem!. The windows refused to boot! i booted using a bootdisk , DOS just wont recognize the partition on which windows was installed! when i tried to use RECOVERY CONSOLE on my winXP installationCD(i thought fixmbr will solve it), i recieved a message saying that windows has i wrote fixmbr \device\harddisk1 : caution windows has found an invalid or non-standard partition table signature If you use this command, you may do u want to continue [y/n] i was scared so said no.i also cudnt reinstall winXP on that driveas it said its a different os(yet FAT32 partition) asking me to format it! i hav important data on this drive. i removed linux from pata and installed windowsXP thinking that then i can access it from there but in vain following is an image attached kindly have a view! what is the solution! shud i retry fixmbr ? will it create : inaccessible partitions : imean will i lose data on other drives of sata as well? help!!!!!!!!
