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Asked by buduson

I mistakenly hibernated my windows xp, and booted to ubuntu
Now i was not able to boot back to windows even when I restarted ubuntu
I am not also able to access my files on the windows paritition because of the hibernation
Windows Xp bootable cd hangs when i try to do a repair installation
so i used win98 to try to backup through DOS; it didn't recognise drive C
my last resort was to format then installed xp and ubuntu back
I hear data can be recovered from formatted partitions on hard drives.
someone please help me out
thanks in advance

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subliminalfix (na1tr2lp-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

have you reconfigured your bios to c cd floppy

what partition did you install to 1 / 3 / 5 all

windows commands should not interfere with linux

did you back up your windows files as suggested?

try to manually run your system directory in 98

c: prompt c:/dir/w or p and check your file log to see if theres a point of access

try to boot into window with the live cd

or try to boot into xp with the system tools options

not sure what ubuntu unix/linux/minux has to do with windows not working?

have you use partition to enable the correct fields ?

try to use bios in cd c floppy/disabled to regain settings

hibernation is a scaling cpu process that has nothing to do with your operating system other than

if its programmed into the language

are you overclocking ram or cpu ?

try a different frequency

peace
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pitwalker (pitwalker) said : 		#2

If you are slower, and not trying big changes on your disk maybe... but now your data is lost.
XP use at default NTFS partition, win9x cannot read and write this type of file system.
If you hibernate win you MUST restart with win! Many changes in the filesystem is saved only to hiberfil.sys!
Win not reread file allocations on resume, if you mount rw a xp used hibernated state partition in linux, you lose changes.

sorry

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pitwalker (pitwalker) said : 		#3

you can trying, google says:

http://www.z-a-recovery.com/unformat-tutorial.htm
http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/
http://www.windowsdatarecovery.com/
http://www.smartpctools.com/ntfs_recovery/index1.html
http://www.ntfsdiskrecovery.com/ntfs-data-recovery
http://www.ntfsrecovery.net/

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