alas something big hit me this week,
i have a machine here that has Win2k installed. after installing linux (i was not the one), the Win2k NTFS partitions could not seen anymore. they are still properly partitions as can be seen with parted and fdisk. however, win2k refuses to see them as NTFS partitions. it sees one as FAT and another as nothing. i think it is just that the partition headers were rewritten? by linux? anyway, the machine has important data on the NTFS partition but Win2K refuses to see it. fdisk will show it as SFS which i changed to NTFS to get one drive working. however, the other drive is still not detected. the only difference with the fixed and busted drive is that the one not fixed lives on an extended partition. can anybody point to me somethings i could execute to restore the NTFS partitions? i am posting this in the PLUG list apparently because linux could have causes the problem in the first place. things i have tried out are fdisk, parted and testdisk to fix the partition type but still NTFS does not see them. i do not have a copy of partition magic around (have to find one). thanks. -- -------------------------------------- William Emmanuel S. Yu Ateneo Cervini-Eliazo Networks (ACENT) email : wyy at admu dot edu dot ph web : http://CNG.ateneo.net/wyu/ phone : 63(2)4266001-4186 GPG : http://CNG.ateneo.net/wyu/wyy.pgp War spares not the brave, but the cowardly. -- Anacreon
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