How do I restore a broken Vista Partition without breaking Linux?

[S P Arif Sahari Wibowo]

On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, jim wrote:
> I just let Ubuntu do it's thing when I installed it over 
> Windows.

I never just let any OS do that when I do OS install, at least 
review it. :-)

> /dev/sda1 fat32 Recovery 9.7 GB
> /dev/sda2 ntfs /media/VistaOS     150 GB
> /dev/sda3 extended	 139 GB
> 	/dev/sda5	ntfs /media/Data 26 GB
> 	/dev/sda6	ext3 /		 109 GB
> 	/dev/sda7	linux_swap       4 GB
>
> I'm assuming the Recovery partition is Expess Gate, the fast 
> bootup option?

I believe the Recovery partition is indeed copy of the whole 
Recovery CD. If you manage to boot to Recovery partition, then 
you can do the whole disk Recovery from there. I has seen this 
in MS Windows machines from major OEM. However, sometime they 
require the MBR to be correct, as my experience with my office's 
Dell. So after installing Linux, the whole partition may be 
useless (especially if you have the Recovery CD anyway).

> Not sure how that ntfs Data partition got in there.

Probably you should review its content first. Make sure nothing 
important there.

Seeing that your Linux only in single partition, copying it to 
other disk will be even easier.


> Thanks for the advice. Hopefully next time I install I'll get 
> the partitioning right.

Actually yours already follow most of Evan's suggestion, i.e. 
having all Linux partition in extended partition.

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