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Need to recover a allocation table in a NTFS partition. Dual boot, started a recovery on XP and....saw that it was going to format my stuff. Canceled. Can't boot into ...
  1. 02-20-2009 #1
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    Broken NTFS Partitions

    Need to recover a allocation table in a NTFS partition. Dual boot, started a recovery on XP and....saw that it was going to format my stuff. Canceled. Can't boot into XP, have it mounting to /media/windows but doesn't show anything in there, shows 6 gigs free which is how many I had free in NTFS, home folder shows 15 gigs free so I know that the /media/windows is showing me the right thing....

    tried su cp -r /media/windows/* /home/user and it spit out an error

    I have a ton of stuff on that partition so really want to save it. Any suggestions?
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    Your best bet is to run a chkdsk from Windows. Boot of an XP CD to do it.

    From a repair console, run chkdsk /f on the drive.
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    unfortunately all I have is the restore disk from Sony, can I do it from this?
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    It will depend on how far the recovery got, but would try testdisk . You can get it for Dos/MS windows/Linux.
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    Besure to read the How-To-Use first.

    the program may also be at the Ubuntu repository software site .

    If the data on the partition is important would first make a sector to sector backup of said partition.
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    For help in cases like this, the best site in my opinion is this one. It contains a lot of info and the rescue CD is loaded with useful stuff.

    link

    Testdisk is on it as well.
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