[ale] Did I lose my windows partition ?

[Boris Borisov]

I have similar notebook and keep the Windows partition.  There is still
tools out there that require windows.

Forscan for example is free Ford diagnostic tool.

But on other hand I have two more linux partitions on it plus swap.

My Antix linux mounts win partitions happily

On Sat, Jan 28, 2023, 16:25 Bob Toxen via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> First, proceed with extreme caution.  It is very easy to trash a file
> system if
> you make a mistake.  Your questions suggest that you are not experienced
> with
> system administration to seek out someone who is.
>
> The partition table stores whatevery file type you select, such as NTFS or
> Linux, as
> a 1 byte value.  The actual data stored in that partition (if any) may be
> of any type you
> (or the manufacturer) wrote to it.
>
> Most actual partition types indicate the actual type in the first few
> bytes of that partition's data
> (not to be confused what is in the partition table).
>
> The fdisk program tells you what is in the partition table and can be used
> to change that
> to what actually corresponds to what is in the partition.
>
> The parted program says what actually is in the partition.  Clearly that
> is ext4.
> You could use fdisk (carefully!) to change the partition table to Linux to
> correspond
> to what actually is in the partition.
>
>
> If said partition is /dev/sda1 you can confirm the actual data is an ext4
> file system
> with the following command which will read the first few byes of the
> partition
> (not the partition table) to determine the type of file system
>
>   file - < /dev/sda1
>
> which should say
>
>   /dev/stdin: Linux rev 1.0 ext4 filesystem data (needs journal recovery)
> (extents) (large files) (huge files)
>
> You might also do the following to check if the file system is ok or
> corrupted but probably should
> do control-C if it wants to make any corrections.  In that case get
> someone who knows file systems.
>
>   fsck -f /dev/sda1
>
>
> Be careful and good luck,
>
> Bob
>
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 03:56:35PM -0500, Narahari Lakshminarayana via Ale
> wrote:
> > Friends:
> > Thank you for your time and attention in advance.
> >
> > I finally found my  Samsung N120  netbook (laptop) that runs Windows XP.
> > I want to use this so I will be able to work on my Samsung tablet aka
> dont
> > want to lose the XP on this. (dont know how to do connect to Android
> tablet
> > from Linux)
> >
> > I wanted to partition the disk to 32GB for Win XP and the remaining 92 GB
> > for Linux.  I tried to partition and I'm not sure what is happening here.
> >
> > fdisk says it has a partition of type NTFS.
> > https://imgur.com/RboROyO
> >
> > parted says it has ext4
> > https://imgur.com/0ymhp6o
> >
> > mount command does not allow me to mount it as NTFS
> > https://imgur.com/wxSp5dJ
> >
> > Does this mean I lost the partition and the XP installation is gone or I
> > still have hope ?
> >
> > Warm Regards
> > -Narahari
>
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