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Re: repairing a ntfs partition





Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 22:33:49 -0400
From: Andy Saxena <andyML@nyc.rr.com>
To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Cc: silk_worm@gmx.net
Subject: Re: repairing a ntfs partition with fdisk ?
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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.

Cheers and thanks for listening (and hopefully helping)

Matt

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.

-Andy

Just a word of caution here.
I had a similar problem with W2k and the repair went OK but as it completed w2k suggested I run "checkdsk /f". This corrupted my kernel image and made the ntfs partition I had on a logical drive in the extended partition unreadable. The blunders I made from there meant I had to reinstall both OS. That's another story though :)

Tim












































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