Sunday, February 10, 2019

windows 8 - Dual boot disaster. Professional help needed

I've had a disaster and need professional help.



To establish if I have lost Windows 8 entirely from No1 disk, this was professionally installed by the local Microsoft dealer, along with a second (new) solid state 250 GB hard drive for the 12.04 install.



I installed 12.04 to disk No2, after ensuring I had the "boot order" correctly sorted and found No2 disk with no operating system on it. But something went wrong and it installed onto disk No1.?



I found I had problem after I ran Boot Repair, as Windows 8 did not appear in the Ubuntu start up menu. 12.04 appears to be working 100% on diskNo1.



I also ran the unistall part of the Boot Repair programme, according to that there is only 12.04 on the disk.




Though; looking at the Disk Utility programme, there are two 8.5 GB partitions, one says "extended", and the other says "unknown". Could Windows be in the unknown partition?



Is there a specialist in or around the Stevenage area, (Hertfordshire UK), who could do the necessary repairs and upgrades to my Cruz Microsystems, model itx system.




sudo fdisk -l -u
[sudo] password for dennis:

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors

Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00058e9e

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 471834623 235916288 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 471836670 488396799 8280065 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 471836672 488396799 8280064 82 Linux swap / Solaris


Disk /dev/sdb: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1efd1efc

Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/mapper/cryptswap1: 8478 MB, 8478785536 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1030 cylinders, total 16560128 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xcef7eac1

Disk /dev/mapper/cryptswap1 doesn't contain a valid partition table






Model: ATA Samsung SSD 840 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 250GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 242GB 242GB primary ext4 boot
2 242GB 250GB 8479MB extended
5 242GB 250GB 8479MB logical



Error: /dev/sdb: unrecognised disk label

Model: Linux device-mapper (crypt) (dm)
Disk /dev/mapper/cryptswap1: 8479MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: loop

Number Start End Size File system Flags

1 0.00B 8479MB 8479MB linux-swap(v1)

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