Help! I've installed a GNU on the same volume as XP

stilltheone

nottseagull wrote: »

There have, but they have all come from you. I did thank you in a PM which has now disappeared from my sent box (I think I know why), so you may not have received it. Alarm bells sounded when you sent a PM giving your email address, then you said
"Don't bother to reply here, just send me an email."
Linked with the fact that you have urged me to provide my postal address on three occasions in PMs, I have become wary of you. Maybe I am being paranoid, but I prefer to be safe than sorry.


No need to apologise, that is not a problem.

I can understand why you have been dealing with the same problems for a month now.
Even with a modicum of intelligence you could have deduced that I did not always have access to my private messages.
So I provided you with an email address.
As to asking for a postal address(not necessarily yours).. how else did you propose to receive physical discs?

There is paranoia and then there is outright stupidity. I going to be polite and suggest that you need to do something about your paranoia. It's holding you back in life.

One month to deal with these simple problems is ridiculous. Even when someone suggests you to purchase a magazine in order to obtain a full Linux distribution, you ignore their suggestion, download an unsuitable solution and !!!!!! up your machine.

So far in your multiple threads I have just seen you blame others for your predicament.

You blamed people on this forum for not analysing your HijackThis log for you getting into trouble in the first place. Now you are writing that someone 'duped' you into installing SliTaz. Almost unbelievable. :eek:

You ignore the people who know how to solve the problem and choose to follow those who simply guess at a solution. When they and you get it wrong, you blame them.
Soon you will have no one left willing to help you.

If you have a problem with people helping you out for free. Just go out to buy what you need.

You can buy Service Pack 3 directly from Microsoft for £5.98.

You'll get there in the end. Maybe after learning some painful lessons about yourself.

Seriously my friend.... what kind of existence do you lead, with no friends to help you out of this situation and too paranoid to accept the kindness of strangers?

Thousands of people have been helped out on this forum with barely a single complaint. Do you actually think that your problem is any more complicated than any that have been found here before?

Why are your taking longer than anyone else's?

You wrote that it is no problem for me to be blunt, so I've taken you at your word.
This biggest obstacle to fixing your problem is you.

nottseagull

fwor wrote: »

Let us know what GPARTED tells you when you've had a chance to run it. Be careful - it's a fully functional partition editor, so treat it with respect...

It shows just the one partition.
Should I go ahead with 'Activate partition of 'GNU/Linux' on the Grub disc, or I do it through Gparted?
Both the GRUB disc options which include "WIN" just launch Slitaz.
There are some further windows options in 'advanced'; which should I try first?

Please ignore the trolling.

fwor

What you describe as trolling refers to an alternative approach which may or may not be helpful...

If you have just one partition and it's got an NTFS filesystem, then it looks like SliTaz has just added its own kernel to that filesystem and has probably left the Win kernel in place, and just changed the MBR to point to itself.

If so, try the "linux has rewritten my MBR" option, which ~may~ find the Windows kernel.

If you have just one ext3 or ext4 partition, then there is almost certainly nothing left to recover.

nottseagull

fwor wrote: »

If you have just one partition and it's got an NTFS filesystem,
If so, try the "linux has rewritten my MBR" option, which ~may~ find the Windows kernel.

The screengrab on #16 shows the filesystem is FAT32, but I don't know if that is NTFS. IDK what ext 2/3 is either; maybe this pic will help.
I cannot find the option(?) that you quote on the GRUB disc.

fwor

nottseagull wrote: »

The screengrab on #16 shows the filesystem is FAT32, but I don't know if that is NTFS. IDK what ext 2/3 is either; maybe this pic will help.

You said yourself that the screengrab in #16 shows what you had before you lost Windows, and before SliTaz did whatever it did. It doesn't really tell you anything about what you actually have now.

FAT32 is now an old filesystem, which was used by MS before XP. NTFS is a more recent filesystem, typically used for Windows XP onward.

Ext2, Ext3 and Ext4 are all journalling filesytems, developed for and used mainly by Linux. If your partition has any of these then Windows will be gone, as Windows cannot read or write to any of these natively.

nottseagull wrote: »

I cannot find the option(?) that you quote on the GRUB disc.

I was quoting an option that you yourself said you were getting from SGBD in post #15.

stilltheone

It's sad, so sad...such a sad sad situation...and it's getting more and more....

I actually feel a bit sorry for you. But at the same time as you insist on doing it your way can only watch as you continually crash into brick walls.

Just incredible really.

23n1th

Helpful as that out of focus photo is I'm beginning to think you are now just playing with us. This must be a thread on par with this one HERE .

Please tell me this is a joke!

nottseagull

stilltheone wrote: »

.. how else did you propose to receive physical discs?

I didn't. It was your idea, which I never even considered.

stilltheone wrote: »

you ignore their suggestion, download an unsuitable solution and !!!!!! up your machine.

Well, if I had not done that, I'd have been ignoring their suggestion in favour of yours. How was I supposed to know that the other guy's suggestion was the wrong one, and that yours is always correct?

stilltheone wrote: »

You blamed people on this forum for not analysing your HijackThis log for you getting into trouble in the first place.

I said that I had posted that log on another thread because nobody had analysed the original. You have translating that into me blaming anybody who didn't spot it or have time to look at it.

stilltheone wrote: »

Now you are writing that someone 'duped' you into installing SliTaz. Almost unbelievable.

I didn't blame him, look back in this thread and you will find I wrote that the SliTaz site stated
SliTaz is a free operating system, working completely in RAM and booting from removable media such as a cdrom or USB key.
It was this incorrect statement I was criticising.

If you cannot add anything constructive, I'd rather you didn't post again on this thread.

23n1th

nottseagull wrote: »

I didn't blame him, look back in this thread and you will find I wrote that the SliTaz site stated
SliTaz is a free operating system, working completely in RAM and booting from removable media such as a cdrom or USB key.
It was this incorrect statement I was criticising.

If you cannot add anything constructive, I'd rather you didn't post again on this thread.

There is nothing incorrect about that statement, it does work from RAM and removable media such as CDs and USB drives. YOU installed it on your hard drive.

nottseagull

fwor wrote: »

Ext2, Ext3 and Ext4 are all journalling filesytems, developed for and used mainly by Linux. If your partition has any of these then Windows will be gone, as Windows cannot read or write to any of these natively.

How do I discover that?

fwor wrote: »

I was quoting an option that you yourself said you were getting from SGBD in post #15.

Sorry, but I never said that was an option. I had read up on the GRUB disc and was asking for clarification. If you do not actually have this disc, then I can take screen photos of the options (I'll use a 1 MP camera) and post them today, around 4.30pm