How to recover my window 2000 partition

[pengboy]

Hi,

I used PartitonMagic8.0 to install Linux 7.3. However after the linux installation, I could not boot to my windows2000 anymore. the old partiton became OS/2 Boot manager. because of my fault,I destroyed the rescue disk created by the PartitionMagic. Is there any way to recover my window partition? Thanks a lot.

 

[electronrancher]

wow win2000 is NTFS, right? i didn't know PM could do that..

What happens - the multi-boot dies on "chainloader+1"? Are you using two drives, or just two partitions? If you can boot to Linux OK then you can try to fix your /etc/grub.conf file..

To use WinXP (Also NTFS) I had to map one drive onto the other with
map hd(1,0) hd(0,0)
map hd(0,0) hd(1,0)
rootnoverify hd(1,0)
chainloader +1

then chainloader worked. To do it on two partitions of the same drive i think would be
map hd(0,1) hd(0,0)
map hd(0,0) hd(0,1)
rootnoverify hd(0,1)
chainloader +1

lemme know if it works - those commands may be incorrect but that is how to boot an NTFS drive - chainloader can't read NTFS in mid-stream, you have to trick it into booting Win altogether