In article <[email protected]>, Thodoris Charalabidis wrote: > After 30 minutes it boots in windows. I browse the 2nd partition. No > problem. I could see all the directories. But I then saw that partition D > (the /dev/sda2) was not 90 GB but 17 GB. And that 80% of all the PHOTOS she > had from our trips and holidays was 0 kb, and I could not open them. > > Can you please advice me what to do in order to recover our photos (and > maybe the rest of the files) and get the capacity of the partition back ???
Using photodisk to recover whatever data you can is a good idea. But AFTER THIS you might be able to get the whole partition back by using a sector editor. The NTFS Volume Boot Record is in the first sector of the partition. You have over-written this with the VBR of the 1st partition. Fortunately, NTFS stores a copy of the VBR in the very last sector of the partition. So, if you use a disk sector editor you can go to the partition/logical-volume in question, grab the last sector of the partition, and then write this over the first sector of THE SAME partition. I used RoadKil's sector editor but MS have these instructions - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/153973 Personally, I think that using Roadkil's editor to just manipulate the logical volume in question is easier and safer. Ian _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
