[Nottingham] Grub error or HD prob?

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> On Monday 19 Jul 2004 18:45, lists at voila.fr wrote:
> > Anyway I can't boot into Windows on hda1
> 
> There have been reports of a problem with kernel 2.6, which has 
> particularly affected Fedora Core 2. 
> 
> Quick and dirty solution:
> http://www.fedorafaq.org/#nodualboot
> 
> Long and intricate solution:
> <http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00908.html>
> 
Using 2.4.20 so I'm not sure that's the issue. Other Windows partitions mount without trouble. 

When I try and mount /dev/hda1 under Linux I get :

mount : wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
or too many mounted filesystems

The partition is FAT32 and I have no other filesystems mounted.

Since I can neither boot nor mount the bugger, I'm thinking that something is wrong physically. A guy at work said that the first 512k of the hd might be toasted - if so, is it possible to fix it?

cheers,

Matt

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