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Old 07-04-2009, 01:39 AM
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Hi

I have 2 hard drives on my machine, one with BT4 and the other was empty, until recently decided to put windows on it, so, I unplugged the first hard drive (the one with BT4 on it) and set the empty drive as the first HDD, after successfully installing and booting windows on the empty drive, I plugged in the BT4 HDD (as the first HDD now) and got the error 'Error Loading Operating System'.
I tried booting into an ubuntu live CD (just one I had on hand) and can see all the files on the filesystem for backtrack (Except the files in root?)

I'm not sure what to do? Any advice?

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Old 07-04-2009, 03:43 AM
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Is it your BIOS that is giving that error? If so you probably need to use a boot CD to play around with your partition table, you might need to set the master boot record and also set the boot flag on the appropriate partition.
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Old 07-04-2009, 04:54 AM
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Hi

This is my the current partition settings:

hxxp://img363.imageshack.us/img363/2312/screenshotdevsdagparted.png

[Can't link yet]

Also, not sure if this is of any importance, but when I tried to boot the backtrack live CD, I got the error:
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Kernel Panic
Not Syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root FS on unknown-block(hd0,0)
Also, normally when I'm booting off grub, the command is:
kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3

Thanks

EDIT: Have decided might as well just go to BT4-PreFinal, but is there any way I can retrieve the files contained in the root folder? For some reason I cannot see them using the live cd (Can see the folder and go inside it, but cannot see any files present)

EDIT2: Sorry, have just realized that this is in the wrong section, I'm using BT4-Beta, feel free to move the thread.

EDIT3: Just did enable show hidden folders in /root and there's 3 files in there? Not sure what that means. [Files are: .wapi, .bashrc and .profile.

Also could it be anything to do with bootloader[s]?
In the /boot folder I have:
abi-2.6.22-14-generic
config-2.6.22-14-generic
initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic.bak
memtest86+.bin
System.map-2.6.22-14-generic
vmlinuz-2.5.22-14-generic

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Old 07-05-2009, 08:07 AM
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Sorry,

Have just booted it into BT4, but still no files? I cannot see any of my original files that resided in root, also some of the software I installed is not present.

Any way to recover the data?

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