[ale] Did I lose my windows partition ?

[Boris Borisov]

On third picture you are trying to mount /dev/sda which is incorrect.
Should be /dev/sda1.

Make USB flash drive with puppy linux. While you are running as root on
puppy linux (think twice before do something) there is plenty of tools aka
automounters to let you see if you lost partition or is still there.

Maybe you have partition but has been fresh formatted!

If quick format has been done probably can be restored successfully.

On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 3:57 PM Narahari Lakshminarayana via Ale <
ale at ale.org> 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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