250GB HardDrive Shows 440GB....Sector

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vs4vijay Posts 2 Registration date Tuesday April 6, 2010 Status Member Last seen April 6, 2010 - Apr 6, 2010 at 05:40 AM
Ambucias Posts 47311 Registration date Monday February 1, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen February 15, 2023 - Apr 6, 2010 at 03:54 PM
Hello there....

i have 250 GB Seagate SATA Hard drive..

I have 5 partition of my hard drive...

in which one is installed with Linux Mint 8...

Yesterday i have installed XP In the second other drive...

i know my GRUB is over rided by Windoz's Boot loader...

because it only shows my XP at boot time...

i tried to reinstall my grub(after chroot the mint 8 partition)...

using this... $ grub-install /dev/sda

but i got an error saying "/dev/sda8 : drive not found"...

then i checked my partitions with this....$ fdisk -l...

it shows the following...http://pastebin.com/wnNZtUur

and after that i checked my partitions using windows....

it shows the following...http://tinypic.com/images/goodbye.jpg

so my problem is ....why there is difference b/w partitions from linux and windows...

and how to overcome this...

PS:and i have lost my partition (name Torrent) and i have also checked with "gparted" but it says the whole drive is unallocated...how can i recover my torrent partition...

and one more thing when i start my windows first time...it starts "defragmanting"...and it says "4 KB Boot Sector Error...."

and now it shows 3301GB...

and i got the error "Bad Logical Partition"...when i try "fdisk -l"....
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Ambucias Posts 47311 Registration date Monday February 1, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen February 15, 2023 11,166
Apr 6, 2010 at 06:44 AM
Hello

Your request is not explicit enough, you are stating facts, there is no question.

Best regards

P.S. It would be wise to formulate your request for help politely
vs4vijay Posts 2 Registration date Tuesday April 6, 2010 Status Member Last seen April 6, 2010
Apr 6, 2010 at 10:35 AM
my question is that...

how can i overcome woth this problem???

and what is my problem???

is this possible to get my other partitions Back???...
Ambucias Posts 47311 Registration date Monday February 1, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen February 15, 2023 11,166
Apr 6, 2010 at 03:54 PM
please?