I had a windows xp installed on dev/sda1(c: ). Then I installed open suse 11.1 on a different partition(sda8 or sda9 I don not remember).
Everything was working proper. I wanted to edit the grub settings to change the timeout and change default to windows. I did change the timeout to 25 and then checked something else(I do not remember now). When I restarted I got no operating system found.
Then I used the suse 11.1 DVD and did something, I got the suse back and also the failsafe suse in the os choices menu but windows was not there. I logged in and was able to access all the drives except the one in which windows was present(c: ). though I was able to see it when I navigated through /root but the contents were not present.
Then I used a live cd(not suse live). When I logged in, I was able to see all the drives also C, but when I tried to open it, I got a message saying something like “the file system was not valid or is not proper ntfs or something like that.
Is all my data lost? Can I recover them and make them proper. Do I have to make changes to grub.conf? If so please tell me in detail. I am new to linux.
Also tell me where I can learn thing like these.
I have a 40 GB HDD.
Can I use any freeware on lunux platform so that I can recover the data from windows partition?
