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Re: repairing a ntfs partition with fdisk?



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On Saturday 31 August 2002 02:01 am, Matthias Szupryczynski wrote:
>
> And ss far as I can see from the description of the parted package, it
> won't work for ntfs ... thanks for the warning though.
>
> I was just hoping there is some 'magic trick' I could perform to repair
> the w2k partition using a linux tool ... but we will see.
>
> Thanks
>
> Matt

    Greetings Matt:

I am sorry to jump into this late since I didn't see your original post, 
*but* I just did an install here on my laptop that had Win-xp on it.

I looked at Gnu/Parted and Randish(sp) for partition resize tools, but 
neither looked promising for the NTFS type.  I decided on Partition Magic 7 
which did the job.

Next, I did a base install and booted.  That is when the error occurred 
locally, and the hard drive wouldn't boot *anything*.  After I booted off my 
Woody-cd1 (in rescue mode), my brother found that when I used cfdisk, I had 
made both win-xp & Linux partitions bootable.  He simply toggled the boot 
switch on the Linux partition, wrote the data, and suddenly I was able to 
boot into Lilo from the hard drive.

If you made the same mistake as me, then perhaps this might help you solve 
your problem.

gl, tatah
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