Re: repairing a ntfs partition with fdisk ?
On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 12:33, Andy Saxena wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 05:58:14PM +1000, Matthias Szupryczynski wrote:
> >
> > Is there any way of repairing the ntfs partition using fdisk or another
> > tool under linux ??
> >
> > Fortunatly I can still mount the partition to rescue the important
> > files, but it is still bad. One would think that the rescue disks should
> > be able to deal with that kind of problem, after all, that is what they
> > are there for.
>
> It's a late reply, but here's a thought:
>
> If you can mount the partition, but not boot from it, it may be that the
> corruption is to the boot sector in the Win2K partition. I think the
> Win2K bootable CD has a rescue option using the command line. There you
> should be able to do FIXBOOT or something similar to repair the damage.
Hi,
I tried that already three weeks ago, and after 2 hours of displaying
the typical 'this operation may take a few minutes, please wait ...'
blue screen, the operation was aborted (checksum error or something
similar, can't remember)
So I simply decided that only a small amount of data on the windows
partition was really important - after backing it up to the another
partition, Windows was wiped out this cfdisk and reinstalled after that.
Thanks anyway,
Matt
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