Anyway, you may be able to recover something, but not with OSS. One slim possibility is that you could copy a little bit of a working NTFS filesystem onto the not-working one with dd. Maybe 1024 bytes or something (If you really need your data you need to know a lot about NTFS to make this work, I know very little) so that windows will think it's sorta formatted, then you could run the disk checker on it and you might get lucky. Don't do it without researching how NTFS finds it's files though.
Unfortunately you probably won't get lucky, but if you don't have the option of paying for professional recovery (I've looked into it, it's expensive) that might be your best chance.
I'm just throwing out ideas. I assume no responsibility for loss of data.
Ryan Bowman wrote:
Actually, I have damaged the partition table, I did run the recovery console but it couldn't see that partition at all, not the windows installed on it, nothing at all. The only thing it could see was the empty partition I had just created. I reinstalled windows on my other partition and it sees the other partition, the correct size, but it tells me it's not formatted and can't read it unless it is.
Ryan
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From: Andrew Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: BYU Unix Users Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: BYU Unix Users Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uug] fixing partition table Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 18:56:33 -0600
I seriously doubt you've actually messed up your partition table, it looks to me like you've only damaged the bootsector of your windows install.
Throw in your windows install disk and when it asks if you'd like to install or repair tell it to repair. This will get you into the recovery console, you'll have to give it the administrator password. Then just run fixboot and follow the prompts. It will tell you that you might lose your data but you prabably won't. That should take care of that. If it doesn't come back and say so.
BTW: Do me a favor and change your sig. Half the time I just read right into it and wonder if I've bee mistaken. Or at least add a "--" to the line above it so my mail client will mark it as a sig.
-- Andrew Jorgensen
Ryan Bowman wrote:
I need some serious help here. I accidentaly installed grub on (hd0,0) rather than (hd0) which means I overwrote the partition table for my main drive partition, and I need it back, rather than installing it on the MBR like I meant to. Are there any utilities or any way to reconstruct the partition info so I can have access to whatever files weren't written over? By the way, it's an NTFS partition that I screwed up, but it was 17GB of data and I'd really like get as much of it back as possible, so any help would be GREATLY appriciated.
Ryan
'You will find it is YOU who are mistaken, about a great many things...' - Emperor Palpatine
'Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force.'
- Lord Darth Vader
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