How to recover MS Windows data after Linux install corrupted windows partition?
Posted on 23 April 2010 by Abidoon
I installed OpenSuse Linux 11.1 on my hard drive, and the installer set aside a large chunk of the hard drive for windows. After installing linux and restarting, windows was no longer a boot option (under grub). Also, the partition for windows was no longer readable. I tried to recover the data using data recovery software without any luck. From another windows machine the recovery software says that it cannot read the data.
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What data recovery software are you using?
Try Photorec (it can be used in Windows or Linux), and it recovers a lot of document types (despite its name implying only photographs) and doesn’t need a working partition table.
I think what happened was that grub missed adding windows to the boot options. Here is a link to do that. It will not affect anything on the windows partition. Even though the instructions are written for ubuntu they will work for grub in general.
This is assuming that windows and suse are on the same drive, called /dev/hda, windows is hda1 and suse hda2 and above. You will also need your password for suse.
Line 4 first makes a backup copy of the file just in case and the second line will open a window where you can edit the file.
Add the suggested lines to the file, review to check for errors and save the file.
On reboot you should have both options for operating system (I hope)
Good luck